Justifications and Excuses
As Adam leaves the bank and approaches his car, he sees his wife behind the wheel of the car with an unknown man seated next to her holding an object to her side. Another man approaches Adam and informs him that he and his partner will kill Adam's wife unless Adam robs the bank and returns to the parking lot within five minutes. He hands Adam a stick-up note and a fake gun. Adam robs the bank and delivers the money to the men. Adam is arrested for bank robbery.
In the past there have been cases where innocent individuals have been forced to rob banks. Either they were threatened with guns or their family members were; others have been hooked up to explosives and told that if they do not rob the bank, then the bomb will detonate. In 2012, a woman was forced to rob a bank while a gunman held her children hostage at home (Velasquez 2012). Under these circumstances, the man would have to prove that he had not been involved in the robbery but was in fact a victim. To do this, he would have to show the gun, or that the stick-up note was not in his handwriting. The testimony of his wife would help, but he would need some other form of corroboration. For example, if the teller with whom he interacted noticed he was upset or fearful about the robbery rather than forward and confident, that would help his case.
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