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As is common in high-profile, politically- and racially-charged shootings, I’m seeing an enormous amount of bad legal takes on whether the shooting of Ralph Yarl by Andrew Lester could possibly have been lawful. In fact, Missouri law explicitly allows for the use of deadly defensive force under the circumstances in which Lester encountered Yarl, and

In the late night hours of April 13, an 84-year-old homeowner living alone was awoken by someone banging on his front door. Lester prudently armed himself with a .32 caliber pistol, and opened his front door to respond to the person outside. Before him an unknown 6-foot-tall male, trespassing in violation of several no-trespassing signs,

Two days ago the defense team for Daniel Perry, found guilty this past Friday for the murder of Garrett Foster, filed a motion for a new trial. Normally such motions are really just a matter of going through some hand-waving, and rarely have any substantive basis for a new trial being granted. Indeed, most of

This past Monday, Attorney Steve Gosney had me on as a guest on his YouTube and Rumble channels. I attempted to simul-stream that live show to the Law of Self Defense community, but of course I “boomered” it, and had to cut off the feed to our community after just a couple of minutes. Today

Today we have a VERY special live guest: Dr. Markus Funk, a law professor and Partner at law firm Perkins Coie. You may recall that back on March 6 I did a show in which I critiqued an academic paper of Dr. Funk’s that engaged in a comparison/contrast of US self-defense law with the defense

This past Friday, April 7, 2023, Daniel Perry was found guilty in the 2020 murder of Garret Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest in Austin. The confrontation between the two men occurred as Perry was driving his Uber vehicle amongst a crowd of protestors in the street, and while Foster was among the protestors

The past week or so have seen a plethora of self-defense favorable laws either advance through legislatures or actually become law–sometimes having to override a governor’s veto! Today we discuss eight states–North Carolina, North Dakota Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, New York, Florida, and Idaho–that have enacted or advanced improvements to the laws that privilege their residents

This past weekend a NYC garage worker who defended himself against an armed aggressor found both himself and the aggressor charged with attempted murder and illegal weapons possession. How could this be possible? We discuss! LAW CARDS! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lawcards/law-cards Gracie Jiu_Jitsu 101 FREE SEMINAR (Colorado Springs), April 8: gjj101.com NEW! Law of Self Defense ADVANCED Class!

Yesterday we covered the interesting appellate reversal of the murder conviction of a woman who claimed self-defense in the shooting death of her boyfriend. She shot him dead under circumstances in which he wasn’t in the moment presenting an immediate threat to her. Generally this would mean she killed in the absence of an imminent