Podcasts

This year is the ten-year anniversary of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who successfully defended himself against a lethal attack by Trayvon Martin—and thus it should come as no surprise that the law side of the racial grievance industrial complex is using the opportunity to foster yet more racial hate and division by propagandizing and […]

Table of Contents w/ timestamps 9:28 Travis Rudolph trial, voluntary manslaughter, imperfect self-defense 18:20 Attacked by myself in wilderness, kill attacker, no witnesses. 22:20 Gasoline prankster: Defensive display appropriate? 32:45 Is defensive display of gun while on own property is a crime? 37:05 Soft stand-your-ground versus hard stand-your-ground. 43:45 PTSD, bystanders frightening to me, flee

On August 15, 2019 two Denver police officers fired 30 shots at female suspect Jamie Fernandez, many after she had already fallen to the street. Almost a year later, District Attorney Beth McCann–no conservative!–would announce no charges against the officers, and consequently no grand jury, and no trial. While the DA’s decision to not charge

You might believe that if you keep yourself within the plain English reading of a statute, you’d be safe from criminal liability. In fact, you’d be mistaken in that belief. Statutes don’t mean what their plain English reading might suggest they mean. As a result, following the plain English reading of a statute can easily

On May 18, Charlotte bus driver David Fullard found himself in a verbal confrontation with passenger Omarri Shariff Tobias. That confrontation escalated to a deadly degree when Tobias presented a handgun and threatened to “pop” Fullard. In response, Fullard drew his own handgun, and the two men engaged in a furious exchange of gun fire

Today we’re doing a Law of Self Defense Members-only show in which we’ll take a deep dive into the San Francisco DA’s decision to not charge the Walgreen’s security guard who shot and killed violent shoplifter Banko Brown, by reading through the DA’s 25-page report explaining their no-charge decision–much of which appears to be political

Today’s show will provide legal analysis and commentary on two gasoline-related use-of-force videos that recently came across my desk. In the first video, a prankster pours apparent gasoline (actually water) over the hoods of occupied cars, almost getting himself shot. In the second, a woman in a car at a gas station is confronted by

This past Saturday, May 20, Daniel Penny–the NYC “choke hold” subway rider charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Jordan Neely–gave an interview to the NY Post. This interview could have been used to share Penny’s version of the confrontation with Neely–but Penny’s lawyers took a wiser path. Instead of laying out their explicit

A Tennessee homeowner confronts several armed car thieves breaking into his vehicles in his driveway at o-dark-thirty. Suddenly, the thieves began shooting at the homeowner–and the homeowner returns defensive fire. In all, at least 28 rounds were exchanged in the gun fight before the thieves fled. When the cops show up to the scene of

In today’s show we cover the recent successful appeal of a Washington state woman who had overturned her conviction on a charge of first-degree (reckless, unintentional) manslaughter over the stabbing death of abusive boyfriend. The reason for the reversal of the conviction? The woman’s trial attorney–and, apparently, the trial court itself–MISTAKENLY believed that self-defense was