{"data":{"id":"us-de/11-del.-c.-792","jurisdiction":"us-de","citation":"11 Del. C. § 792","heading":"Coercion; truth and proper motive as a defense.","body":"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 believed the threatened charge to be true and that the defendant’s sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of the threatened charge.","path":["Title 11. Crimes and Criminal Procedure","Delaware Criminal Code","CHAPTER 5. Specific Offenses","Subchapter II. Offenses Against the Person"],"source_url":"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c005/sc02/index.html#792","current_through":"2026-08-10 (85 Del. Laws, c. 421, 424)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T23:02:13Z","sha256":"86a2b1f216c563dbe2c3b1317bb4b54100676a6ee83f1805867ce48aff16d502","source_id":"us-de","stale":true,"prev":"us-de/11-del.-c.-791","next":"us-de/11-del.-c.-801"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}