Coercion; no defense · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 135.70 Coercion; no defense.
The crimes of (a) coercion and attempt to commit coercion, and (b) bribe receiving by a labor official as defined in section 180.20, and bribe receiving as defined in section 200.05, are not mutually exclusive, and it is no defense to a prosecution for coercion or an attempt to commit coercion that, by reason of the same conduct, the defendant also committed one of such specified crimes of bribe receiving.
Coercion or attempted coercion and bribe receiving by a labor official (section 180.20) or bribe receiving (section 200.05) are not mutually exclusive. ★ It is no defense to a coercion or attempted-coercion charge that the same conduct also amounted to one of those bribe-receiving crimes.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.