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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 […]

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

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 July 29, 2021 we touched on a broad range of questions submitted for the show,

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

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 couple of news items of use-of-force events that illustrate the legal doctrine of transferred intent—in a good (positive) sense, in a bad (negative) sense, and noting

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

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 Michigan and handed down just last week that touches upon issues raised when the legal defense of self (self-defense) collides with

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 Texas that touches upon a common, and often misunderstood facet of self-defense law—when is evidence of your attacker’s demonstrable history of

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 out of the Oregon court of appeals that illustrates an unfortunate feature of the American criminal justice system—the reality that the good guy defendant in