N.Y. Penal Law § 135.75: Coercion; defense

§ 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.