ORS 163.285: Defense to coercion.
Where this section sits in the code
- 04 - Criminal Procedure, Crimes
- 16. Crimes and Punishments
- Chapter 163 — Offenses Against Persons
In any prosecution for coercion committed by instilling in the victim a fear that the victim or another person would be charged with a crime, it is a defense that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true and that the sole purpose of the defendant was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of the threatened charge.
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