Attorney Andrew Branca

Naturally, what you do during a fight is likely to be decisive in terms of whether your use of force was lawful self-defense or the unlawful force of an aggressor. Indeed, what you do prior to a fight can be used to infer particular states of mind, such as an intent to provoke a confrontation,

Michael Dunn, a City Commissioner of Lakeland FL who on October 3 shot and killed a shoplifter in his store, has been indicted and charged with second-degree murder, arrested at his attorney’s office yesterday evening, and is being held without bail, reports the Tampa Bay Times.   You can view my earlier post on this

A news story out of rural North Carolina describes how a victim of road rage aggression fired a shot into the aggressor in response to the aggressor’s thrown punches, and concludes with the local prosecutor giving the OK to the shooter and charging the aggressor with misdemeanor simple assault and the traffic violation of following

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-violence-stats-20181018-story.html

A news story out of St. Louis MO describes how a police officer, Lori Wozniak, was criminally charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault for purportedly giving a “rough ride” on August 2 to two arrestees being transported in her vehicle. As the story reports: Wozniak was reportedly upset at the men, who had been

Readers may recall that on July 7, 2016  Michael Strickland–a self-described “citizen journalist” decided to attend a Portland OR “Black Lives Matter” event, purportedly for reporting purposes.   Strickland had through his previous blogging on BLM become well-known to many of the people active in the Portland BLM movement, and he was recognized at the