{"id":272,"date":"2012-10-18T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T14:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=272"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:30:41","slug":"31-voodoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"31. Voodoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273\" title=\"ActusReus04\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ActusReus04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ActusReus04.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ActusReus04-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1c12812dd555042639341' value='6a1c12812dd555042639341'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1c12812dd555042639341' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1c12812dd555042639341' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1c12812dd555042639341' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 8: What Have You Done?<br \/>Page 4: Actus Reus &#8211; Causation<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at what Joe did.<\/p>\n<p>Joe wanted to kill Simon. So he got a voodoo doll from his local witch doctor, and stuck some big pins in it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Old-timey doctor outside a tribal hut with the sign &#8220;Vudu R. Us&#8221;, waving while Joe sticks big pins in a straw effigy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the very next day a brick fell from a building and put a dent in Simon&#8217;s skull.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brick falling from the sky why Simon saunters jauntily along.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1c12812dd555042639341' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\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":[33,37,1],"tags":[20,21,5,4,16,18],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized","tag-actus-reus","tag-causation","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpability","tag-liability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}