{"data":{"id":"us-gu/9-gca-7.61","jurisdiction":"us-gu","citation":"9 GCA § 7.61","heading":"Duress or Necessity.","body":"(a) In a prosecution for any offense it is an affirmative defense that the defendant engaged in the conduct otherwise constituting the offense:\n(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\n(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.\n(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.","path":["Title 9: Crimes and Corrections","Chapter 7: Exemptions and Defenses","ARTICLE 3: DEFENSES"],"source_url":"https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/09gc007_Q.pdf","current_through":"P.L. 38-133 (June 4, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-27T02:45:08Z","sha256":"a915cf83eabe7b8b8c6d0264ce69eed23a03c209edf91731024b5548b8b95baa","source_id":"us-gu","stale":false,"prev":"us-gu/9-gca-7.58","next":"us-gu/9-gca-7.64"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}