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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 509 KIDNAPPING AND RELATED OFFENSES
509.080 Criminal coercion.

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509.080 Criminal coercion. (1) A person is guilty of criminal coercion when with intent to compel another person to engage in or refrain from conduct, he unlawfully threatens to: <br>(a) Commit any crime; or <br>(b) Accuse anyone of a crime; or <br>(c) Expose any secret tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt or ridicule or to impair another's credit or business repute; or (d) Take or withhold action as an official or cause an official to take or withhold action. (2) A defendant may prove in exculpation of criminal coercion committed under subsection (1)(b), (c) or (d) that he believed the accusation or secret to be true or the <br>proposed official action justified and that his sole purpose was to compel or induce <br>the victim to desist from misbehavior or to make good a wrong done by him. (3) Criminal coercion is a Class A misdemeanor. Effective: January 1, 1975 <br>History: Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 183, sec. 2. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 80, effective January 1, 1975.

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