United States v. Portillo-Vega

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Bailey , which dealt with the defense of necessity, \is ... central to a discussion of the duress defense\
• holding that duress evidence was properly excluded where defendant failed to proffer evidence on each element of the defense
• holding that to be entitled to present a duress defense to the jury, a defendant must proffer legally sufficient evidence as to each element of the defense
• viewing evidence favorable to the defendant when reviewing district court’s decision precluding duress defense upon government’s motion in limine
• precluding, duress defense altogether after pretrial hearing, which was consented to by both parties
• rejecting defendant’s claim he had absolute right to have jury consider his defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).