People v. Cord

How courts have described this case

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• defendant not entitled to necessity instruction where there was “no evidence of a compelling and imminent danger,” and his subjective concern about potential danger did not equate to a specific and immediate threat
• “The availability of other alternatives precludes a reasonable belief on defendant’s part that driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol was necessary to avoid a public or private injury greater than the injury which might reasonably result from his own conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).