{"id":864,"date":"2012-10-19T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=864"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:35:29","slug":"96-self-defense-it-was-either-him-or-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"96. Self-Defense: &#8220;It Was Either Him or Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-865\" title=\"SelfDefense01\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense01.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense01-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>As with all these black-and-white chapters of Criminal Law, this originally appeared as a single-page post on Tumblr, meant to be viewed in one continuous scroll. When it all got ported to this dedicated site, the chapters were all broken up into pages, to make it easier to read and comment. To see the original version, click <a href=\"https:\/\/thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com\/post\/24691276257\/15-self-defense-it-was-him-or-me\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e4a864941735091539369' value='69e4a864941735091539369'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e4a864941735091539369' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e4a864941735091539369' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e4a864941735091539369' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 15: It Was Either Him or Me<br \/>Self-Defense pg 1: Rico the Rustler<\/p>\n<p>Rico the Rustler was riding the range last night, looking for some cattle to steal.<\/p>\n<p><em>The moon rises above a western landscape with rocky formations, a cowboy&#8217;s riding his horse<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e4a864941735091539369' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with all these black-and-white chapters of Criminal Law, this originally appeared as a single-page post on Tumblr, meant to be viewed in one continuous scroll. When it all got ported to this dedicated site, the chapters were all broken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-864","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\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}