{"id":627,"date":"2012-10-19T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=627"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:53:41","slug":"19-another-transferred-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"19. Another Transferred Intent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"Excuse19\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse19.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse19-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e0c1a0499093015345668' value='69e0c1a0499093015345668'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e0c1a0499093015345668' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e0c1a0499093015345668' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e0c1a0499093015345668' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 19: Diminished Capacity as a Valid Defense<\/p>\n<p><em>Brian being held down and forced to drink a tall glass of booze like Cary Grant&#8217;s character in North by Northwest<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe if someone held him down and\u00a0<strong>forced<\/strong> a whole bottle of bourbon down his throat, against his will, but such things don&#8217;t happen in real life.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s silhouette: &#8220;First my Maguffin, now this? Is this homage or theft?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe responds: &#8220;That&#8217;s a different course.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, what if Doug had thought that Tina was a dragon, not because of a schizophrenic delusion, but because he was\u00a0<strong>high<\/strong> on hallucinogens?<\/p>\n<p>If he took the drugs on purpose, then\u00a0<strong>that<\/strong> intent is going to be\u00a0<strong>transferred<\/strong> to what he did to Tina. He&#8217;s guilty of Murder.<\/p>\n<p><em>Doug freaking out and seeing dragons, spots, and mushrooms everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But if his doctor had given them to him by mistake? Then yeah, he might have a valid Diminished Capacity defense.<br \/><br \/><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e0c1a0499093015345668' 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-627","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\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}