The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 14: Do or Die
Duress pg 12: No Murder under Duress
Biker 1 finishes his thought
BIKER 1
To answer your question: Yes, Stu can absolutely be blamed for that.
STU
What? No! I did it under duress!
Mustachioed muscleman biker enters the scene
BIKER 3
Duress never justifies killing another person.
BIKER 2
Ah, so it’s like Necessity, where you can’t kill an innocent person to save your own life.
The bikers fight amongst themselves, while Stu looks on and Snitchy bleeds.
BIKER 3
Right, your life weighs the same as his, so far as the law’s concerned.
BIKER 1
I get the sense that Necessity, Duress, and Self-Defense are just, uh…
BIKER 2
Three sides of the same… uh…
5-dimensional coin?