{"id":806,"date":"2012-10-19T15:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=806"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:26:31","slug":"77-why-duress-is-a-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"77. Why Duress Is a Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-807\" title=\"Duress07\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress07.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress07-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5f134790753057879727' value='69e5f134790753057879727'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5f134790753057879727' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5f134790753057879727' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5f134790753057879727' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 7: No free will, no crime<\/p>\n<p>Duress is a\u00a0<strong>complete defense<\/strong> because you&#8217;re being forced to do it\u00a0<em>against<\/em> your will.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe in scholar hat, at a chalkboard listing &#8220;Elements&#8221; (of a crime) &#8220;1. mens rea&#8221; and &#8220;2. actus reus.&#8221; He&#8217;s erasing the &#8220;mens rea&#8221; line.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That pretty much does away with the whole &#8220;mens rea&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And thus the whole &#8220;crime&#8221; thing, really.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the Golden Horde threatened to kill Vicky there and then if she didn&#8217;t commit prostitution for them.<\/p>\n<p>She was in perfectly reasonable fear for her life, and could not have escaped.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, Vicky can assert the defense of Duress. She may have committed the act, but she committed no crime.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vicky looking at the reader<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>VICKY<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Didn&#8217;t I just\u00a0<strong>say<\/strong> that?<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5f134790753057879727' 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-806","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\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}