{"id":822,"date":"2012-10-19T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=822"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:28:00","slug":"82-duress-vs-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"82. Duress vs. Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-823\" title=\"Duress12\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress12.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress12-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5f46af2a990021680771' value='69e5f46af2a990021680771'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5f46af2a990021680771' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5f46af2a990021680771' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5f46af2a990021680771' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 12: No Murder under Duress<\/p>\n<p><em>Biker 1 finishes his thought<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To answer your question:\u00a0<strong>Yes,<\/strong> Stu can\u00a0<strong>absolutely<\/strong> be blamed for that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>STU<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What? No! I did it under\u00a0<strong>duress!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Mustachioed muscleman biker enters the scene<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Duress\u00a0<strong>never<\/strong> justifies killing another person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Ah, so it&#8217;s like Necessity, where you can&#8217;t kill an innocent person to save your own life.<\/p>\n<p><em>The bikers fight amongst themselves, while Stu looks on and Snitchy bleeds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Right, your life weighs the same as his, so far as the law&#8217;s concerned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I get the sense that Necessity, Duress, and Self-Defense are just, uh\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Three sides of the same\u2026 uh\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">5-dimensional coin?<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5f46af2a990021680771' 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-822","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\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}