201427P.pdf   01/21/2021  United States  v.  Dajuan Sharron
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-1427
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Benton and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in denying 
   defendant's request for instructions on duress or coercion and/or 
   voluntariness as he failed to meet his burden of proving the existence of 
   duress/coercion by a preponderance of the evidence; his evidence amounted 
   to a generalized and speculative fear of violence and was insufficient to 
   demonstrate the requisite showing of present, imminent and impending 
   threat; nor did he show that he had no reasonable, legal alternative to 
   engaging in the offense conduct; the record showed the district court did 
   not prohibit defendant from arguing his theory of defense and his claim 
   that he was prohibited is rejected.