Stone v. Ballard

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the duress defense is not available in many jurisdictions for “attempted murder or aiding and abetting murder”
• noting that the duress defense is not available in many jurisdictions for “attempted murder or aiding and abetting murder”
• “[W]e should defer to Congress’s chosen method to try to strike the correct balance between the United States’ humanitarian obligations and national security.”
• “Duress does not excuse murder or even reduce murder to manslaughter. . . . And in many jurisdictions, duress does not excuse attempted murder or aiding and abetting murder either.”
• “Duress does not excuse murder or even reduce murder to manslaughter. . . . And in many jurisdictions, duress does not excuse attempted murder or aiding and abetting murder either.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).