{"id":591,"date":"2012-10-19T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=591"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:45:18","slug":"7-provocation-temporary-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"7. Provocation: Temporary Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-592\" title=\"Excuse07\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse07.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse07-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a14213e14fed1042685610' value='6a14213e14fed1042685610'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a14213e14fed1042685610' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a14213e14fed1042685610' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a14213e14fed1042685610' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 7: Provocation<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be a bit more precise, though.<\/p>\n<p>When people use the phrase &#8220;temporary insanity,&#8221; what they&#8217;re really talking about is the defense of\u00a0<strong>PROVOCATION.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe goofily enthusiastic<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">How inciteful!<\/p>\n<p>AaaAnyway\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Fred came home one day to find his wife in bed with the plumber.<\/p>\n<p><em>Businessman opening the door in shock to see surprised wife and satisfied plumber, post-coitus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The shock\u00a0<strong>enraged<\/strong> him so that he could barely see, and he leapt onto the bed and started pummeling the plumber.<\/p>\n<p><em>Businessman with eyes blanked out punching plumber in the neck so hard the plumber&#8217;s feet fly up<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the blows crushed his windpipe, and the plumber\u00a0<strong>died.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a14213e14fed1042685610' 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-591","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\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}