{"id":732,"date":"2012-10-19T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=732"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:10:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:10:24","slug":"53-the-3-justification-defenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"53. The 3 Justification Defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-733\" title=\"Necessity04\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity04.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity04.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity04-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1a9a7f20b9e2060555111' value='6a1a9a7f20b9e2060555111'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1a9a7f20b9e2060555111' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1a9a7f20b9e2060555111' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1a9a7f20b9e2060555111' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 4: Three Justification Defenses<\/p>\n<p>There are three main justification defenses:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0<strong>Necessity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where circumstances compelled you to do it, for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p><em>Superhero flying above the city<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>SUPERHERO<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You\u00a0<strong>had<\/strong> to do it.<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0<strong>Duress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where another person threatened to hurt you, unless you did it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe with a gun to his head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">He\u00a0<strong>made<\/strong> you do it.<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0<strong>Self-Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where someone was about to hurt you,* and you had to stop him.<\/p>\n<p><em>Young mom pulling a gun on an armed assailant attacking her and her daughter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>MOM<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">He made you do it to\u00a0<strong>him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Or someone else<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1a9a7f20b9e2060555111' 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-732","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\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}