Which statement correctly distinguishes extortion from robbery?

• A. Robbery involves threats of future harm.
• B. Extortion involves threats of immediate harm.
• C. Taking property from the victim's person is required in extortion.
• D. Extortion involves obtaining property through threats of future harm or exposing information.

Answer: (D)

Extortion centers on getting property by coercion through threats, either of future harm or of exposing information about the victim. The key is the use of threats or blackmail to induce surrender, not the actual taking at the moment. Robbery, by contrast, involves taking property directly from the victim’s person or in their immediate presence, using force or intimidation at the time of the taking. So the statement that extortion involves obtaining property through threats of future harm or exposing information captures the mechanism that distinguishes it from robbery. The other options misstate the timing or nature of the threat or the requirement to take property from the victim’s person.