{"id":846,"date":"2012-10-19T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=846"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:32:18","slug":"90-stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"90. Stranger Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-847\" title=\"Duress20\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress20.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress20.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress20-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f2e4718623d3002147395' value='69f2e4718623d3002147395'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f2e4718623d3002147395' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f2e4718623d3002147395' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f2e4718623d3002147395' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 20: Jim&#8217;s in a Jam<\/p>\n<p>But believe it or not, Jim is probably going to jail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim behind bars<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JIM<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">You&#8217;re shitting me.<\/p>\n<p>Some states\u00a0<strong>have<\/strong> been starting to allow a defense of duress when the threat was against a stranger, but even there Jim might have a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the more\u00a0<strong>distant<\/strong> the relationship, the\u00a0<strong>less<\/strong> likely the law will accept that a reasonable person would have been &#8220;unable to resist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim&#8217;s pissed. A Horde member explains.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JIM<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That&#8217;s fucking stupid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Not really. American law doesn&#8217;t recognize a\u00a0<strong>duty<\/strong> to protect strangers, and as this is all about competing duties (to the law and to others)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f2e4718623d3002147395' 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-846","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\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}