Compulsion by threats: reasonable fear of instant death can excuse criminal acts, subject to specified categorical exceptions. Compulsion by threats is a statutory excuse where threats reasonably causing apprehension of instant death render otherwise criminal acts non-offensive, except for murder and State offences punishable with death; the defence is unavailable if the actor voluntarily or by reasonable fear of lesser harm placed himself in the situation, but applies where a person is seized and forced under threat of instant death to commit the act.
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Compulsion by threats: reasonable fear of instant death can excuse criminal acts, subject to specified categorical exceptions.
Compulsion by threats is a statutory excuse where threats reasonably causing apprehension of instant death render otherwise criminal acts non-offensive, except for murder and State offences punishable with death; the defence is unavailable if the actor voluntarily or by reasonable fear of lesser harm placed himself in the situation, but applies where a person is seized and forced under threat of instant death to commit the act.
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