{"id":621,"date":"2012-10-19T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=621"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:53:07","slug":"17-diminished-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"17. Diminished Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-622\" title=\"Excuse17\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse17.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse17-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a13a16dc63f65007454313' value='6a13a16dc63f65007454313'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a13a16dc63f65007454313' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a13a16dc63f65007454313' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a13a16dc63f65007454313' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 17: Diminished Capacity<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe explaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In real life, Insanity defenses are almost never raised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And they almost never succeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So keep all this in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>People are more likely to try the related defense of\u00a0<strong>DIMINISHED CAPACITY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Joe talking head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Though it&#8217;s rarely a winner, either.<\/p>\n<p>Diminished Capacity is when you didn&#8217;t have a mental problem, so you weren&#8217;t legally insane, but something\u00a0<strong>else<\/strong> made you unable to understand what you were doing, or that it was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a13a16dc63f65007454313' 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-621","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\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}