{"id":2435,"date":"2014-01-24T22:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:58:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:58:25","slug":"26-deadly-detour-an-innocent-person-has-nothing-to-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"26. Deadly Detour: An Innocent Person Has Nothing to Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4049\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg26-1.png\" alt=\"The courts issued hundreds of writs of prohibition, trying to prevent the High Commission and ecclesiastical proceedings from denying due process. It hammered home that it was the law of the land that the State couldn't force an Englishman to incriminate himself. James' son Charles, along with his Archbishop Laud, dramatically expanded the High Commission and Star Chamber, this time against the politically incorrect. They created a new rule, that refusing the oath ex officio counted as an admission of guilt. After all, why would an innocent person assert his rights? If you have nothing to hide, the reasoning went, you had nothing to fear. The reaction was...\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg26-1.png 2800w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg26-1-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg26-1-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg26-1-843x1024.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-procedure","category-self-incrimination","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}