{"id":735,"date":"2012-10-19T14:17:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=735"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:10:46","slug":"54-meet-dylan-the-dimwit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"54. Meet Dylan the Dimwit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-736\" title=\"Necessity05\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity05.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity05.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity05-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1afaad1349d5092742348' value='6a1afaad1349d5092742348'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1afaad1349d5092742348' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1afaad1349d5092742348' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1afaad1349d5092742348' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 5: Dylan the Dimwit<\/p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s look at\u00a0<strong>Necessity.<\/strong> How can you tell when circumstances justify committing an act that ordinarily would have been a crime?<\/p>\n<p>Meet Dylan the Dimwit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dylan is pouring gasoline on a fire in his living room, with a bundle of dynamite nearby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using gasoline and dynamite, he burned his own house down so he could collect the insurance money (committing Arson and Fraud, in his state).<\/p>\n<p><em>Dylan&#8217;s house is on fire, looking distressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fire quickly began to spread up and down his block.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nearby houses are catching fire, also looking distressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1afaad1349d5092742348' 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-735","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\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}