{"id":726,"date":"2012-10-19T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=726"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:09:35","slug":"51-excuse-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"51. Excuse = An Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-727\" title=\"Necessity02\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity02.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity02-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5f47e3fd824029980143' value='69e5f47e3fd824029980143'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5f47e3fd824029980143' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5f47e3fd824029980143' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5f47e3fd824029980143' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 2: Excuse Recap<\/p>\n<p>If you had other\u00a0<strong>options<\/strong> then it&#8217;s an\u00a0<strong>&#8220;excuse&#8221;<\/strong> defense, such as<\/p>\n<p>extreme provocation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Angry man punching the screen so it splinters<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>MAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fondle my\u00a0<strong>kid,<\/strong> will you?!<\/p>\n<p><em>Worried\/confused woman split by the refraction of the splinters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>legal insanity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Police officer pushing Average Joe backwards into a bear trap<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or entrapment.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5f47e3fd824029980143' 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-726","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\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}