UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Danny MORENO, Defendant-Appellant

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• finding that a defendant had an opportunity to escape the threatened harm by surrendering to authorities while still within view of any potential surveillance
• finding that a defendant had a reasonable opportunity to escape the threatened harm by surrendering to authorities at an airport after transporting drugs from California to Hawaii
• finding that where a defendant alleged he was being watched, \[t]he encounter with [the authorities] presented a clear opportunity for [the defendant] to save himself and alert authorities about the threat to his family\
• finding that where a defendant alleged he was being watched, “[t]he encounter with [the authorities] presented a clear opportunity for [the defendant] to save himself and alert authorities about the threat to his family”
• finding that a defendant who failed to produce any evidence indicating that he could not seek help from law enforcement did not proffer sufficient evidence indicating that he lacked the opportunity to escape the threatened harm
• “While the constitutional right to testify permits a defendant to choose whether or not to take the witness stand, it does not authorize a defendant to present irrelevant testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).