Understanding the Defense of Coercion
- Posted by Marcia Shein
- On July 5, 2018
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- coercion, Criminal Defense, duress, necessity
The United States Supreme Court recently refused to hear a man’s challenge to a 2005 murder conviction, which he claimed was the result of coercion. This complicated case is documented in the Netflix series, “Making a Murderer.” A lower court of appeals upheld the man’s convictions for murder, sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse. […]
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