{"id":79673,"date":"2021-10-07T05:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79673"},"modified":"2021-10-07T05:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:24:52","slug":"consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79673","title":{"rendered":"Consent!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chicago \/ Cook County prosecutors are declining to charge gang members for homicides &#8211; partly because witnesses are terrified to speak out&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;.and partly because they, to quote a line that hardly ever works for rapists, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2021\/10\/3\/22707555\/5-suspects-released-without-charges-deadly-shootout-austin\">consented<\/a>&#8221; (I&#8217;ve added emphasis):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>While she wouldn\u2019t specify what other evidence prosecutors needed to file charges, the police report acknowledged that victims of the shootout weren\u2019t cooperating with investigators.<\/p><p>But the report also framed the state\u2019s attorney\u2019s office\u2019s decision to decline charges in a different light: \u201c<strong>Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection<\/strong>.\u201d Mutual combat is a legal term used to define a fight or <strong>struggle that two parties willingly engage in<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This should revolutionize self-defense cases:  &#8220;Your honor, the decedent voluntarily entered my client&#8217;s house.   My client voluntarily shot him&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that&#8217;d be too simple, wouldn&#8217;t it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago \/ Cook County prosecutors are declining to charge gang members for homicides &#8211; partly because witnesses are terrified to speak out&#8230; &#8230;.and partly because they, to quote a line that hardly ever works for rapists, &#8220;consented&#8221; (I&#8217;ve added emphasis): While she wouldn\u2019t specify what other evidence prosecutors needed to file charges, the police report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79682,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673\/revisions\/79682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}