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2016 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title H - OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING PHYSICAL INJURY, SEXUAL CONDUCT, RESTRAINT AND INTIMIDATION
Article 135 - (135.00 - 135.75) KIDNAPPING, COERCION AND RELATED OFFENSES
135.75 - Coercion; defense.

NY Penal L § 135.75 (2016) What's This?
135.75 Coercion; defense.

In  any prosecution for coercion committed by instilling in the victim
  a fear that he or another person would be charged with a crime, it is an
  affirmative  defense  that  the  defendant   reasonably   believed   the
  threatened  charge to be true and that his sole purpose was to compel or
  induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which
  was the subject of such threatened charge.

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