· 12/20/1979
United States v. John Stanley Campbell, United States of America v. Riley Ray Fultz
Citations
- 609 F.2d 922
How courts have described this case
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- prior death threats by prison gang members if defendant did not commit offenses insufficient to meet immediacy element
- “a defense of duress or coercion requires that there be an immediate threat of death or serious bodily harm . . . and it must be in a situation in which there was no opportunity to avoid the danger”
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Judges: Bright, Ross, Stephenson
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