{"id":834,"date":"2012-10-19T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=834"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:29:59","slug":"86-overcoming-your-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"86. Overcoming Your Free Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-835\" title=\"Duress16\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress16.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress16-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1bb312796ff1084982760' value='6a1bb312796ff1084982760'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1bb312796ff1084982760' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1bb312796ff1084982760' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1bb312796ff1084982760' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 16: Uncertain Death<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sword of Damocles, hanging by a single horsehair as a very real yet still only potential threat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some states give you a little more wiggle room, so long as the threat was enough to overcome a reasonable person&#8217;s free will.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Horde cruising around some twisties<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;One of these days&#8221; isn&#8217;t quite as\u00a0<strong>intimidating<\/strong> as &#8220;right after the trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s a matter of degree, so it may have to be up to a jury to decide.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1bb312796ff1084982760' 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-834","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\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}