{"id":594,"date":"2012-10-19T13:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=594"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:46:17","slug":"8-provocation-elements-of-the-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"8. Provocation: Elements of the Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-595\" title=\"Excuse08\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse08.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse08-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1b13997269d3093313701' value='6a1b13997269d3093313701'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1b13997269d3093313701' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1b13997269d3093313701' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1b13997269d3093313701' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 8: Elements of the Provocation Defense<\/p>\n<p>Fred was charged with murdering the plumber. At trial, he asserted a provocation defense, claiming that he was in a murderous rage for a damn good reason, and so he must therefore be excused.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fred in the witness box, making his case.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>FRED<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s not that I was\u00a0<strong>insane<\/strong> at the time,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">just that you can&#8217;t\u00a0<strong>blame<\/strong> me for reacting the way I did!<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s going to need the jury to believe that:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The plumber\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">provoked<\/span> him,<\/p>\n<p>(2) into a passion that\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">overcame<\/span> his reason,<\/p>\n<p>(3) He killed in the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">heat<\/span> of that passion, and<\/p>\n<p>(4) A &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">reasonable person<\/span>&#8221; in that situation would have been just as provoked.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1b13997269d3093313701' 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-594","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\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}