NYSentencing

§ 155.15  Larceny; defenses.
    1.   In  any prosecution for larceny committed by trespassory
taking or embezzlement, it is an  affirmative  defense  that  the
property  was  appropriated  under  a claim of right made in good
faith.
    2.   In any prosecution for larceny by extortion committed by
instilling in the victim a fear that he or another  person  would
be  charged  with  a crime, it is an affirmative defense that the
defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge  to  be  true
and  that  his sole purpose was to compel or induce the victim to
take reasonable action to make  good  the  wrong  which  was  the
subject of such threatened charge.