State v. Larrivee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a threat from a dangerous and violent friend that the defendant would be “very sorry” if he did not commit robbery was insufficient to warrant a jury instruction on duress
• holding that a threat from a dangerous and violent friend that the defendant would be “very sorry” if he did not commit robbery was insufficient to warrant a jury instruction on duress
• threat from dangerous and violent friend that defendant would be “very sorry” if he did not commit robbery is not sufficient to warrant jury instruction on duress defense
• threat from dangerous and violent friend that defendant would be \very sorry\ if he did not commit robbery is not sufficient to warrant jury instruction on duress defense
• “We must test that claim initially by 11 our state constitution. That document, after all, has been the primary protector of the fundamental liberties of Maine people since statehood was achieved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).