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Título 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Capítulo 3. DEFENSES TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS · Artículo 2. JUSTIFICATION AND EXCUSE

16-3-26. Coercion.

Vigente

Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.

  1. A person is not guilty of a crime, except for the offense of murder provided for in subsection (a) of Code Section 16-5-1, if the act upon which the supposed criminal liability is based is performed under such coercion that he or she reasonably believes that performing the act is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily injury to himself or herself or a third person.

Las notas siguientes se imprimen con la sección, pero no son ley promulgada (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). Se muestran aparte del texto.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 780.; Code 1863, § 4202; Code 1868, § 4238; Code 1873, § 4303; Code 1882, § 4303; Penal Code 1895, § 41; Penal Code 1910, § 41; Code 1933, § 26-402; Code 1933, § 26-906, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 497, § 3/HB 582, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, rewrote this Code section.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2025, p. 497, § 1/HB 582, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Survivor Justice Act.’”

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Texto leído de t16-ch1-6-(v14)-pdf.pdf, Volumen V14, edición 2019, suplemento de 2025, páginas 50 a 51; acción de fusión: replaced; SHA-256 del archivo 575f9121d25f.