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Excuse: Duress

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Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationCrime and Criminal LawExcuse: Duress - The Nature Of The Threat, The Nature Of The Crime, The Mistaken Defendant, The Semiculpable Defendant - Superior orders: husbands and wives