N.Y. Penal Law § 135.75

§ 135.75 Coercion; defense.\n In any prosecution for coercion committed by instilling in the victim\na fear that he or another person would be charged with a crime, it is an\naffirmative defense that the defendant reasonably believed the\nthreatened charge to be true and that his sole purpose was to compel or\ninduce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which\nwas the subject of such threatened charge.\n