§ 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.
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