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  2. Entrapment - Wikipedia

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    A valid entrapment defense has two related elements: [45] government inducement of the crime, and; the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. The federal entrapment defense is based upon statutory construction, the federal courts' interpretation of the will of Congress in passing the criminal statutes.

  3. Duress in American law - Wikipedia

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    Duress is a threat of harm made to compel someone to do something against their will or judgment; especially a wrongful threat made by one person to compel a manifestation of seeming assent by another person to a transaction without real volition. - Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004) Duress in contract law falls into two broad categories: [6]

  4. Jacobson v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540 (1992), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court regarding the criminal procedure topic of entrapment.A narrowly divided court overturned the conviction of a Nebraska man for receiving child sexual abuse material through the mail, ruling that postal inspectors had implanted a desire to do so through repeated written entreaties.

  5. Criminal defenses - Wikipedia

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    The duress must involve the threat of imminent peril of death or serious injury, operating on the defendant's mind and overbearing his will. [16] Threats to third persons may qualify. [ 17 ] The defendant must reasonably believe the threat, [ 18 ] and there is no defense if "a sober person of reasonable firmness, sharing the characteristics of ...

  6. Coercion - Wikipedia

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    Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner through the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party. [1] [2] [3] It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to induce a desired response.

  7. Necessity and duress - Wikipedia

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    Necessity and duress (compulsion) are different defenses in a criminal case. [1] [2] [3] The defense of duress applies when another person threatens imminent harm if defendant did not act to commit the crime. The defense of necessity applies when defendant is forced by natural circumstances to choose between two evils, and the criminal act is ...