{"id":908,"date":"2012-10-19T15:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=908"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:42:39","slug":"110-when-fighting-back-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"110. When Fighting Back Is Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-909\" title=\"SelfDefense15\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense15.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense15-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SelfDefense15-319x300.png 319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f3032183f140093411878' value='69f3032183f140093411878'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f3032183f140093411878' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f3032183f140093411878' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f3032183f140093411878' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 15: It Was Either Him or Me <br \/>Self-Defense pg 15: Furball<\/p>\n<p><em>As Arnold and Britt erupt in a cloud of fisticuffs, Eddie and the barmaid relax with their beers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>BARMAID<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I see Britt&#8217;s fighting back, now. Does\u00a0<strong>that<\/strong> count as self-defense?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>EDDIE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">No, ma&#8217;am. Arnold was hitting him\u00a0<strong>lawfully.<\/strong> You can only use force to protect yourself against\u00a0<strong>unlawful<\/strong> attacks.<\/p>\n<p>{SUGGESTED EDIT: Maybe state specifically that self-defense doesn&#8217;t justify hitting someone who was only protecting himself against you in the first place.]<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f3032183f140093411878' 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-908","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\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}