{"id":556,"date":"2012-10-19T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=556"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:41:31","slug":"2-ignorance-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"2. Ignorance of the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-580\" title=\"Excuse02\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse022.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse022-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f4c93d618592091634627' value='69f4c93d618592091634627'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f4c93d618592091634627' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f4c93d618592091634627' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f4c93d618592091634627' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 2: Ignorance of the Law<\/p>\n<p>To her great surprise, Julie was arrested and charged with marijuana cultivation, and is now facing a minimum of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><em>Julie being arrested by a SWAT guy in tactical gear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JULIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But I thought it was legal!<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a good, law abiding person who sincerely believed it wasn&#8217;t against the law. She&#8217;d never choose to commit a crime. She was simply\u00a0<strong>mistaken.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t she be\u00a0<strong>excused<\/strong> from punishment here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nope.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sad Average Joe<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s like they say\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ignorance of the law is no excuse.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f4c93d618592091634627' 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":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}