[Honestly, he should've thought to do this ages ago. But he wasn't exactly running stable enough to think to keep his admissions private.]
My reputation and job were lost causes, anyway. The person the public adored never really existed, and I'm sick of living a lie for shallow approval...and I faked my way past the mental evaluation to join the police force. Even the most lenient outcome would involve me being declared unfit to serve.
[A short pause.]
What you're offering is only likely to work if you also tell them that you would have had my targets killed even if I'd refused. The coercion defense doesn't accept multiple lives sacrificed to save one.
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My reputation and job were lost causes, anyway. The person the public adored never really existed, and I'm sick of living a lie for shallow approval...and I faked my way past the mental evaluation to join the police force. Even the most lenient outcome would involve me being declared unfit to serve.
[A short pause.]
What you're offering is only likely to work if you also tell them that you would have had my targets killed even if I'd refused. The coercion defense doesn't accept multiple lives sacrificed to save one.