{"id":741,"date":"2012-10-19T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=741"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:11:39","slug":"56-immediate-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"56. Immediate Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-742\" title=\"Necessity07\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity07.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity07-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1ac26b226c61074585812' value='6a1ac26b226c61074585812'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1ac26b226c61074585812' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1ac26b226c61074585812' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1ac26b226c61074585812' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 7: Sincerity<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, destroying someone&#8217;s home like that is a serious crime. But when Harry the Hero did it, it wasn&#8217;t a crime at all. It was justified by\u00a0<strong>necessity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Harry striking a heroic pose, explaining to Dylan and the neighbor girl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>HARRY<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And I&#8217;ll tell you\u00a0<strong>why:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">First, there was an immediate danger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>DYLAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Actually, we now know there wasn&#8217;t. The wind was blowing\u00a0<strong>away<\/strong> from my house!<\/p>\n<p><em>Harry smugly explaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>HARRY<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I believed that there\u00a0<strong>was<\/strong> an immediate danger. That&#8217;s all that matters.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dylan isn&#8217;t buying it<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>DYLAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But your belief was unreasonable. The wind was blowing really hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>HARRY<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It doesn&#8217;t matter if my belief was unreasonable. All that matters is that it was\u00a0<strong>sincere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1ac26b226c61074585812' 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-741","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\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}