THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
SCOTTSBORO TRIALS
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a false accusation
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to be friends or an alley with
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to agree with
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to persuade, especially by force or threats
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Detailed explanation-1: -Coercion (/koʊˈɜːrʒən, -ʃən/) is compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against a party. It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to induce a desired response.
Detailed explanation-2: -verb. co·erce kō-ˈərs. coerced; coercing. : to cause someone to do something by force or threat.
Detailed explanation-3: -(1) A person is guilty of coercion if by use of a threat he or she compels or induces a person to engage in conduct which the latter has a legal right to abstain from, or to abstain from conduct which he or she has a legal right to engage in.
Detailed explanation-4: -forced or compelled through intimidation or authority, especially without regard for individual volition: A judge decided that key evidence, obtained from a coerced 14-year-old boy, was unreliable. verb.
Detailed explanation-5: -If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to. He argued that the government coerced him into pleading guilty.