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Duress Defense Unavailable to Prisoner Volunteering Assistance to Help Another Escape

The en banc Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner convicted as a principle to possession of escape paraphernalia waived a defense of duress, and that failure to give instructions on that defense was not plain error. The prisoner was charged with attempted escape from a Florence, Colorado ...

 

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