{"id":831,"date":"2012-10-19T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=831"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:29:39","slug":"85-immediate-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"85. Immediate Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-832\" title=\"Duress15\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress15.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress15-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5bf1544f5e4025802842' value='69e5bf1544f5e4025802842'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5bf1544f5e4025802842' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5bf1544f5e4025802842' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5bf1544f5e4025802842' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 15: Clear and Present Danger<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a serious threat, and Millie takes it seriously. When she takes the stand, she lies under oath.<\/p>\n<p><em>Millie testifying<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>MILLIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Golden Horde? Never heard of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the prosecutor was displeased. Millie is now being charged with\u00a0<strong>perjury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Millie panicking<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>MILLIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But I did it under Duress!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Millie, in most states that threat\u00a0<strong>wasn&#8217;t<\/strong> enough to make it Duress.<\/p>\n<p><em>Man looking at his watch while holding a gun on the viewer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In most jurisdictions, you have to be afraid of being hurt\u00a0<strong>immediately,<\/strong> not at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5bf1544f5e4025802842' 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-831","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\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}