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Law of Self Defense News/Q&A Show: August 12, 2021

Welcome to this episode of our ONLY open-access content, our weekly News/Q&A Show. A transcript of the show is available at the Law of Self Defense Blog (http://lawofselfdefense.com/blog), with links to all relevant content mentioned. In today’s News/Q&A Show for August 12, 2021 we touched on a broad range of questions submitted for the show, […]

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Amber Guyger Appeal Rejected: Importance of Legal Terms of Art

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense. Today I’d like to share with you the decision by a Texas court of appeals three-judge panel to reject the request by former police officer Amber Guyger for a reversal of her murder conviction

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Competing Narratives: Cold-Blooded Murder or Self-Defense?

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense. Today I’d like to share with you a murder trial taking place this week in Virginia.  The Defendant has raised the legal defense of self-defense, and of course the prosecution is seeking to disprove

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Choice of Evils Defense: When Committing A Crime Is Permissible

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense. Today I’d like to share with you an appellate court decision out of Colorado that touches upon a very old legal doctrine that exists in some form in every state—although states vary in what

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Exceptional Fighting Skill: Impact on Reasonableness of Self-Defense

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense. Today I’d like to share with you a news story in which a US Navy SEAL, a decorated war hero and combat veteran, was shot dead while unarmed—and successive prosecutors have declined to criminally

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Defense of Others: An Interesting Wrinkle from TN Court of Appeals

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense. Today I’d like to share with you a decision handed down just about a week ago from the Tennessee court of appeals.  As usual when I share such decisions, the legal doctrines involved are

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“Open the Door So I Can Rape and Kill You”: An Imminent Threat?

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense. Today I’d like to share with you a short but rather horrifying video forwarded to me from a Law of Self Defense Member. It shows home surveillance video footage of a man knocking on

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Law of Self Defense News/Q&A Show: July 22, 2021

Welcome to this episode of our ONLY open-access content, our weekly News/Q&A Show. A transcript of the show is available at the Law of Self Defense Blog (http://lawofselfdefense.com/blog), with links to all relevant content mentioned. The Only Good Soros Prosecutor Is a Defeated Soros Prosecutor “stand your ground” laws won’t apply in Dixon case Man shoots van with

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