{"id":386,"date":"2012-10-18T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=386"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:37:06","slug":"49-taking-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"49. Taking Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-387\" title=\"Attempt12\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Attempt12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Attempt12.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Attempt12-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1bc04c4469b9035264807' value='6a1bc04c4469b9035264807'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1bc04c4469b9035264807' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1bc04c4469b9035264807' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1bc04c4469b9035264807' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 9: At Least You Tried<br \/>Attempt pg 12: Taking Steps<\/p>\n<p><em>Flint Michigan&#8217;s shadow on a brick wall, in the beam of a flashlight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your old partner Flint Michigan (on the other hand) is an interesting case.<\/p>\n<p>Flint hasn&#8217;t done anything to you\u2014he hasn&#8217;t hurt you, you hasn&#8217;t killed you. But in\u00a0<strong>some<\/strong> jurisdictions, he&#8217;s already guilty of the crime of\u00a0<strong>ATTEMPT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attempted\u00a0<strong>murder,<\/strong> to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>[SUGGESTED EDIT: change &#8220;you hasn&#8217;t killed you&#8221; to &#8220;he hasn&#8217;t killed you]<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe talking head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Why??<\/p>\n<p>Flint hasn&#8217;t hurt you. He has the necessary intent, but he hasn&#8217;t committed the actus reus for assault or murder.<\/p>\n<p>Why should he be punished for something he hasn&#8217;t even\u00a0<strong>done<\/strong> yet?<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1bc04c4469b9035264807' 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-386","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\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}