{"id":630,"date":"2012-10-19T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=630"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:53:59","slug":"20-only-on-t-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"20. Only on T.V."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-631\" title=\"Excuse20\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse20.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse20-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5f492ae1c98052515735' value='69e5f492ae1c98052515735'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5f492ae1c98052515735' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5f492ae1c98052515735' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5f492ae1c98052515735' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 20: Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>If, that is, the defense is even recognized in his state any more. Some jurisdictions have\u00a0<strong>abolished<\/strong> the Diminished Capacity defense. And others define it differently. So in real life, Doug might not have a valid defense even then.<\/p>\n<p>So far, we&#8217;ve covered a lot of excuse defenses that you hear about a lot, but which\u00a0<strong>rarely<\/strong> come up in real life, and which almost\u00a0<strong>never<\/strong> succeed.<\/p>\n<p>But before we move on to Justification defenses, there is one excuse that you hear about which\u00a0<strong>does<\/strong> come up in real life.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s one that people get wrong\u00a0<strong>all the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So how about we learn how to get it\u00a0<strong>right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay! We&#8217;ll learn all about it next time in Part 12: &#8220;I Was Entrapped!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5f492ae1c98052515735' 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-630","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\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}