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 reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true and that the sole purpose of the defendant was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of the threatened charge.
ORS 163.285
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case State v. Robertson (1982)
Most recently applied in 204 Or. App. 295 - State v. Flajole (February 2006)
1971 c.743 §103
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