N.Y. Penal Law Section 135.75
Coercion

  • defense
In any prosecution for coercion committed by instilling in the victim a fear that he or another person would be charged with a crime, it is an affirmative defense that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true and that his sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of such threatened charge.

Source: Section 135.75 — Coercion; defense, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PEN/135.­75 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Feb. 28, 2026).

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