California Court of Appeal

Threatened "hardship" is not a form of "duress" justifying convictions for forcible oral copulation and forcible penetration by a foreign object under Penal Code 288a and 289(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2001
• Published 11/21/2001

Judges

• JOHNSON, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  The Law Offices of Dennis A. Fischer, Dennis A. Fischer, Santa Monica, and John L. Ryan, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Senior Assistant Attorney General,  Linda C. Johnson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Michael J. Wise, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.