Podcasts

This past week Tucker Carlson–whose work I generally admire–did a segment on the right of self-defense, referencing several recent self-defense cases in the news. Unfortunately, Tucker’s grasp of self-defense law can only be described as tenuous at best, and his ability to apply self-defense law to actual encounters to be lacking in objectivity. The result […]

Today’s show takes another look at the Murdaugh opening statements by the State and defense, to see who has done the best job of delivering on what they promised to deliver at the start of the trial. JOIN ME LIVE at 3:30 PM ET! THEN at 6PM ET join me again live as I guest

On January 31, 2023, New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies filed a statement of probable cause for involuntary manslaughter in the October 21, 2021 shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of low-budget western movie “Rust.” My own legal analysis of that event, beginning the day following the shooting, had 13 months

Tyre Nichols died three days after violently resisting his January 7, 2023 arrest by the Memphis police department. This past Friday, video of that arrest was released. Now five Memphis police officers have been fired and are facing charges of murder. Not that it should matter, but the five officers as well as Nichols are

On Wednesday, January 18 the Minnesota Court of Appeals heard oral argument on Derek Chauvin’s appeal from his conviction in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin was convicted in Minnesota state court of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter (note that all of these are unintentional forms of unlawful killing, what most states

In the early morning hours of December 13, 2022 a heavily armed Cherokee County NC Sheriff’s SWAT team arrived that the trailer home of Jason Kloepfer and Alison Mahler, and began shouting orders at the couple sleeping inside. Awakened, Kloepfer and Mahler stumbled to the door of their trailer, and opened to shouted commands. Quickly,

Today I cover five crazy use-of-force events reported in recent weeks from around the country. Sadly, these crazy use-of-force events aren’t as unusual as a reasonable person might wish, but at least they provide the Law of Self Defense community with a learning opportunity. Join me today LIVE at 4:30 PM ET for today’s show!

Yesterday I was a guest on the YouTube show of Legal Vices, an American lawyer based of out South Korea who specializes in admiralty law. We talked mostly Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter case, but also a bit about motorcycles, as well as a California prison lifer who killed two child rapists with whom he’d been imprisoned,

Today I’m joined by the defense team–Attorney Patrick Canan and Attorney Dan Hilbert, both of Canan Law (https://www.cananlaw.com/), who won Luis Casado self-defense immunity in Florida last month! Click here to view/download the post-hearing defense memorandum arguing for immunity. NEW! Law of Self Defense ADVANCED Class! This is our full-day course on the use-of-force in

This morning New Mexico District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies announced that actor Alec Baldwin would be charged with two counts of manslaughter in the October 21, 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins as the two worked together on the set of the low-budget movie “Rust.” This decision to charge Baldwin with manslaughter comes a mere