{"id":825,"date":"2012-10-19T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=825"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:28:20","slug":"83-duress-doesnt-always-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"83. Duress Doesn&#8217;t Always Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-826\" title=\"Duress13\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress13.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress13-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69fdde6b91b443057679130' value='69fdde6b91b443057679130'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69fdde6b91b443057679130' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69fdde6b91b443057679130' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69fdde6b91b443057679130' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 13: Cheery Bye!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Horde members clamber back into their van, waving farewell to a very dismayed Stu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The point is, you&#8217;re guilty of murder, Stu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Remember, don&#8217;t tell the cops about us, or we&#8217;ll kill your family!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>OTHER BIKERS<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We know where you live!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Better you than me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Cheery bye!<\/p>\n<p><em>The van drives off into the sunset, as a rattler looks on<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Some states will reduce it to manslaughter, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Of course. Because Duress did away with the intent needed for a murder charge.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69fdde6b91b443057679130' 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-825","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\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}