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Hey folks, This week’s Cases of the Week Show, for the week ending May 22, 2020, includes the three most important and interesting appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases in the last week out of the following states: Montana, Kansas, and Michigan If your state wasn’t in that list, don’t lose interest, you […]

Hey folks, This week’s Cases of the Week, for the week ending May 8, 2020, includes the three most important and interesting appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases in the last week out of the following states: Pennsylvania, Texas, and Georgia (Supreme Court!) If your state wasn’t in that list, don’t lose interest,

Hey folks, The man who filmed the attack by Ahmaud Arbery on Travis McMichael, William “Roddy” Bryan, has been charged by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) with felony murder predicated on criminal attempted false imprisonment, according to various news reports. If that sounds like a mouthful of a charge, that’s because it appears to

Enjoy the show! TRANSCRIPT OF SHOW Welcome everybody. Welcome to the law of self-defense. This is our Q&A Show for Thursday, May 21st. Come on in, folks, make yourselves comfortable For those who may not. Now I am Attorney and Branca. Thank you very much. This is our kind of open framed, loosely structured show

Hey folks, Today’s show looks at another Ahmaud Arbery video, released in the last 24 hours or so, of Arbery apparently getting arrested in a parking lot for purportedly attempting to shoplift a 65″ TV. You got that right, sixty-five inches. Go big or go home, I guess. The video itself isn’t all that interesting

Hey folks, In this episode we cover three of the most notable appellate court use-of-force decisions of the last week. People v. Stevenson, 2020 Mich. App. LEXIS 3376 (MI Ct. App. 2020) Involving a a crack-fueled ménage à trois, and a denied jury instruction on defense of others. Branham v. State, 2020 Ind. App. Unpub.

Hey folks, In today’s show on the Ahmaud Arbery case I touch on two closely related topics, and share a police body cam video with you. First, we compare the photos preferentially used by the media in the Trayvon Martin case with the photos preferentially used by the media in this Arbery case. Second, we

Hey folks, In the last several shows I’ve mentioned that I would share with all of you the arrest warrants for Travis McMichael and Greg McMichael, but realized today that so far I’ve neglected to follow through on that. In the interests of picking up that dropped ball, you’ll find both arrest warrants embedded below.

Hey folks, Today’s show is a short one focusing mostly on the just released news that Greg McMichaels was working cooperatively with the police and the homeowner of the structure Arbery unlawfully entered, to keep an eye on the property, particularly in the event of unlawful intruders. This provides a perfectly legitimate rationale, free of

Hey folks, In yesterday’s show I presented the provocative and controversial argument that, in fact and law, the GA citizens arrest law is irrelevant to whether the conduct of Travis McMichael and/or Greg McMichael was criminal with respect to the death of Ahmaud Arbery. I also made the same argument during lengthy, 3.5 hour, interview