This law was passed to protect people who have been forced, through the use of someone else's superpowers, to committing crimes they would otherwise never have taken part in. Under its tenets, people who are arrested as minions of a supervillain and can prove conclusively that they were forced to do so through mental control and domination, or the exertion of similar compelling superpowers, can be exhonorated from the charges levied against them, and the charges instead applied to the supervillain who held them in thrall.

Historically, the courts have sided with reasonable doubt in terms of conclusive proof of mental control.

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