{"id":843,"date":"2012-10-19T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=843"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:31:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:31:56","slug":"89-another-guy-another-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"89. Another Guy, Another Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-844\" title=\"Duress19\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress19.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress19-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e604f2452795016851706' value='69e604f2452795016851706'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e604f2452795016851706' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e604f2452795016851706' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e604f2452795016851706' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 19: Protecting a Stranger<\/p>\n<p>Across the state, Jim was also threatened.<\/p>\n<p><em>Two more bikers by the 2nd Nat&#8217;l Bank threaten Jim similarly<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">See the little girl in this photo? You\u00a0<strong>don&#8217;t know<\/strong> her, but we&#8217;re gonna kill her if you don&#8217;t rob that bank right now.<\/p>\n<p>So what if he didn&#8217;t know her? Threatening that little girl&#8217;s life was\u00a0<strong>enough<\/strong> to overcome Jim&#8217;s will as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Another SWAT team going &#8220;hut&#8221; piles on Jim<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cops got him, too.<\/p>\n<p>Bob successfully claimed\u00a0<strong>duress,<\/strong> and went free.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bob strutting down a path, smiled on by the sun, a tree, a bunny, and a flower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most states recognize the defense when someone in your immediate\u00a0<strong>family<\/strong> is the one being threatened.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t have to be your\u00a0<strong>own<\/strong> skin you&#8217;re protecting.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e604f2452795016851706' 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-843","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\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}