United States v. Kenneth Blankenship

How courts have described this case

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• laying out the elements of a justification defense but declining to determine whether the defense is available in § 922(g) cases
• regarding the test for coercion and the test for duress, which the court called justification, as separate tests
• laying out the elements but declining to determine whether the defense is available in section 922(g) cases
• “One who has full opportunity to avoid the [criminal] act ... cannot invoke the doctrine of coercion.” (quotation omitted)
• defendant who has opportunity to avoid commission of criminal offense not entitled to jury instruction on coercion defense
• \One who has full opportunity to avoid the [criminal] act . . . cannot invoke the doctrine of coercion.\ (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).