{"id":559,"date":"2012-10-19T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=559"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:42:09","slug":"3-forgiveness-vs-nothing-to-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"3. Forgiveness vs. Nothing to Forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-582\" title=\"Excuse03\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse032.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse032.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse032-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f500dddaf4e4042457624' value='69f500dddaf4e4042457624'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f500dddaf4e4042457624' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f500dddaf4e4042457624' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f500dddaf4e4042457624' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 3: When is a crime not a crime?<\/p>\n<p>In other words, a mistake of law will not excuse you from criminal liability.<\/p>\n<p>There are\u00a0<strong>other<\/strong> kinds of situations, however, where you might be excused. Situations where you did something that ordinarily would have been punishable as a crime\u2026 but in this case you&#8217;re off the hook.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, what you did was bad, but you&#8217;re\u00a0<strong>EXCUSED<\/strong> for one reason or another.<\/p>\n<p><em>The State comforting Average Joe, who&#8217;s on bended knee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The State forgives you.<\/p>\n<p>In other cases, what you did wasn&#8217;t bad at all: You were\u00a0<strong>JUSTIFIED<\/strong> in doing it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The State, cheerfully dismissive<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There&#8217;s nothing to forgive!<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f500dddaf4e4042457624' 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-559","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\/559","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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}