{"id":852,"date":"2012-10-19T15:38:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=852"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:32:54","slug":"92-nobody-said-the-law-was-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"92. Nobody Said the Law Was Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-853\" title=\"Duress22\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress22.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Duress22-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e5f11a7987f0084143001' value='69e5f11a7987f0084143001'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e5f11a7987f0084143001' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e5f11a7987f0084143001' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e5f11a7987f0084143001' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 14: Do or Die <br \/>Duress pg 22: Dueling Duties<\/p>\n<p><em>The Horde fights among themselves<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Does the protection of the Duress defense stem from this duty to protect, or is it the other way round?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BIKER 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">No.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The duty and the defense are co-emergent, mere aspects of the same\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enough of that!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The point is that Jim is in trouble, even though he almost certainly did the right thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe talking head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It&#8217;s not fair, but it&#8217;s how the law is at the moment. (When we get to procedure, we&#8217;ll see how prosecutorial discretion and the grand jury are supposed to smooth out such wrinkles\u2014in theory, at least.)<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e5f11a7987f0084143001' 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-852","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\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}