{"id":750,"date":"2012-10-19T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=750"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:12:52","slug":"59-theres-no-chutzpah-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"59. There&#8217;s No Chutzpah Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-751\" title=\"Necessity10\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity10.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity10-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1b78986918f3032830944' value='6a1b78986918f3032830944'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1b78986918f3032830944' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1b78986918f3032830944' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1b78986918f3032830944' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 10: There&#8217;s No Chutzpah Defense<\/p>\n<p>Dylan sincerely (and correctly) believed there was an immediate danger; destroying the one home was less harm than letting the rest burn down; and there wasn&#8217;t a less harmful alternative.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dylan&#8217;s proud of himself, the family grieves for the loss of their home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>DYLAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So I&#8217;m justified, right?<\/p>\n<p>No, you&#8217;re going to jail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>DYLAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">For burning down my\u00a0<strong>own<\/strong> house, maybe\u2014but surely not for knocking down my\u00a0<strong>neighbor&#8217;s<\/strong> house to save everyone else&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Why can&#8217;t I claim\u00a0<strong>necessity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because the Necessity defense doesn&#8217;t apply if\u00a0<strong>you&#8217;re<\/strong> the one who caused the emergency in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe and Dylan talking heads<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There&#8217;s no such thing as a chutzpah defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>DYLAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Damn.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1b78986918f3032830944' 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-750","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\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}