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us-gu · Through P.L. 38-133 (June 4, 2026)

9 GCA § 7.61: Duress or Necessity.

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  1. Title 9: Crimes and Corrections
  2. Chapter 7: Exemptions and Defenses
  3. ARTICLE 3: DEFENSES

(a) In a prosecution for any offense it is an affirmative defense that the defendant engaged in the conduct otherwise constituting the offense:

(1) because he was coerced into doing so by the threatened use of unlawful force against his person or the person of another in circumstances where a person or reasonable firmness in his situation would not have done otherwise; or

(2) in order to avoid death or great bodily harm to himself or another in circumstances where a person of reasonable firmness in his situation would not have done otherwise.

(b) The defenses defined in this Section are not available if the offense is murder nor to a person who placed himself intentionally, knowingly or recklessly in a situation in which it was probably that he would be subjected to duress or compulsion.

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