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SECTION 40.00
Duress
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 1, TITLE C, ARTICLE 40
§ 40.00 Duress.

1. In any prosecution for an offense, it is an affirmative defense
that the defendant engaged in the proscribed conduct because he was
coerced to do so by the use or threatened imminent use of unlawful
physical force upon him or a third person, which force or threatened
force a person of reasonable firmness in his situation would have been
unable to resist.

2. The defense of duress as defined in subdivision one of this section
is not available when a person intentionally or recklessly places
himself in a situation in which it is probable that he will be subjected
to duress.