{"id":380,"date":"2012-10-18T14:48:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=380"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:36:26","slug":"47-thought-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"47. Thought Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"Attempt10\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Attempt10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Attempt10.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Attempt10-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a145884c7a331078584653' value='6a145884c7a331078584653'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a145884c7a331078584653' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a145884c7a331078584653' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a145884c7a331078584653' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 9: At Least You Tried<br \/>Attempt pg 10: Wishing<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>four<\/strong> people who want you\u00a0<strong>dead.\u00a0<\/strong>The question is, which ones committed a\u00a0<strong>crime<\/strong> against you?<\/p>\n<p><em>Bill in silhouette, playing with a yo-yo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bill doesn&#8217;t intend to kill you, and hasn&#8217;t done anything to hurt you.<\/p>\n<p>No mens rea, no actus reus?\u00a0<strong>No crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Merely wishing harm on someone is not something the State is going to punish.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe in a noir detective&#8217;s hat and trench coat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Crime is always something you\u00a0<strong>did,<\/strong> not something you\u00a0<strong>thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a145884c7a331078584653' 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":[25,5,4,16,24,18],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized","tag-attempt","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-culpability","tag-guilt","tag-liability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}