Podcasts

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like focus on a case out of Fort Dodge, Iowa that touches upon the distinction between use-of-force criminal charges and weapons criminal charges, as well as how those two distinct sets of charges can overlap and impact each other. The case involves an early […]

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like to share with you a recent court decision out of the Kansas Supreme Court just five days ago, on January 15, that illustrates the unfortunate circumstance in which a self-defense immunity provision is so weak that it effectively provides no shield against unwarranted

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we’re going to share an appellate court decision out of Louisiana that was handed down just a few days ago, on January 13, involving a self-defense case in which the defender’s 39-year manslaughter sentence was reversed on the grounds that the prosecutors at trial had

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  Today we’re going to a very interesting question sent in to us from Law of Self Defense Platinum-level Member Scott M., who asked us to address the legal doctrine of hearsay evidence, as well as two specific exceptions to the hearsay rule—the excited utterance and the

Welcome to this episode of our ONLY open-access content, our weekly News/Q&A Show. A transcript of the show is (or soon will be) available below my signature, for those who prefer to read rather than view. Also, Law of Self Defense Members can access the show in audio form in the members-only Law of Self

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  Today we’re going to discuss a legal doctrine that’s come up in the context of the Capital Hill protests in which at least one person died directly, and that is whether the protestors could reasonably be held responsible for felony murder as a consequence of that

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we take a look at the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbit by a Capital police officer during the January 6 protests at the Capital last week and conduct a plain-English legal analysis to consider the lawfulness, or unlawfulness, of that use of force event. Before

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we’re going to discuss a case out of Galesburg, IL in which a gun store owner fought off an attack by four or five burglars.  Fortunately for the gun store owner, and unfortunately for the burglars, the owner was armed. This case provides an opportunity

Welcome to this episode of our ONLY open-access content, our weekly News/Q&A Show. A transcript of the show is (or soon will be) available below my signature, for those who prefer to read rather than view. Also, Law of Self Defense Members can access the show in audio form in the members-only Law of Self

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today we’re going to talk about the announcement this past Tuesday of the Kenosha Wisconsin District Attorney to not bring criminal charges against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake back on August 23 of this year.  Blake suffered a paralyzing injury. Because the officer involved