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Hey folks, This week’s Cases of the Week includes the 5 most important and interesting appellate court decisions (case law) on use-of-force cases in the last week out of the following states:  Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, and Louisiana If your state wasn’t in that list, don’t lose interest, you can likely learn a lot from […]

An Alabama woman kills her rapist in self-defense only to find herself indicted for his murder.  Fortunately for her, Alabama provides for immunity from criminal prosecution for people who use force in lawful self-defense. Unfortunately for her, the judge responsible for deciding whether the woman qualifies for this immunity has decided she does not—so off

This week’s Calling the Shots show focuses on a pick-pocket effort followed by a mob attack on a rider on the Chicago subway (the same video we covered in this week’s After Action Analysis show). Enjoy! Remember: You carry a gun so you’re hard to kill. Know the law so you’re hard to convict. Stay

Gang Attack! Legal & Practical Considerations The video for this After Action Analysis involves a robbery followed by a gang attack on a 68-year-old victim that took place just last week in Chicago, and it raises several interesting legal issues as well as practical considerations. Before I dive in, however, I’d like to recognize the

Hey folks, If two groups of men engage in an unlawful gunfight, and one of them accidentally kills an innocent bystander who is criminally responsible for the murder of the innocent bystander?  You may be surprised to learn the answer is not “just the shooter,” but rather “everybody engaged in the gunfight.” In this particular

On this episode of Calling the Shots, kindly hosted LIVE by Alien Gear Holsters every Wednesday at 6PM ET on their Facebook page (mark your calendars!), we covered the video of a knife robbery of a woman working in a convenience/liquor store. Get ready to enjoy our self-defense law analysis of each stage of this

We received a comment yesterday to one of our videos on YouTube that I thought worth expanding on. Mike K. writes: Andrew, I am a 61-year-old man who has many health issues, including fused vertebrae in my neck which I believe would make a normally survivable punch in the nose potentially fatal to me. …

This episode of After Action Analysis takes a look at policy body camera footage captured during a fatal officer-involved shooting of a non-compliant suspect, one Genevive Dawes, under circumstances that appear more than sufficient to support a prosecution of the officer who fired the fatal shots (or at least most of the fatal shots; the

You’re a martial artist who observes a woman being victimized by her domestic abuser.  You intervene in her defense, the confrontation turns physical, you throw some punches at the abuser.  You connect, the abuser falls, and hits his head on the ground. He dies of the head injury. Is it possible that the criminal justice