{"id":722,"date":"2012-10-19T14:15:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=722"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:08:18","slug":"50-excuse-vs-justification-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"50. Excuse vs. Justification (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-723\" title=\"Necessity01\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity01.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity01-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f4d342dcb1b2074581445' value='69f4d342dcb1b2074581445'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f4d342dcb1b2074581445' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f4d342dcb1b2074581445' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f4d342dcb1b2074581445' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 1: Two Type of Defenses<\/p>\n<p>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law<\/p>\n<p>Part 13: &#8220;I Had No Choice!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remember, there are two types of defenses:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Excuse&#8221;<\/strong> defenses<\/p>\n<p><em>The State looking &#8220;sorry, but this is how it is&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Where society would\u00a0<strong>prefer<\/strong> you hadn&#8217;t done it, but still isn&#8217;t going to\u00a0<strong>punish<\/strong> you for it.<\/p>\n<p>and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Justification&#8221;<\/strong> defenses<\/p>\n<p><em>The State giving you a big thumbs-up &#8220;ding!&#8221; and tossing away her big freaking hammer<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Where society says you actually did the\u00a0<strong>right thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f4d342dcb1b2074581445' 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-722","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\/722","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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}