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Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like to share with all of you a case currently being argued in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court that involves the question of whether an unlawful intruder who commits a nighttime breach of a home, and then kills the homeowner when confronted, might […]

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like share with all of you the analysis of a mob-on-patrol-car attack that took place a couple of days ago in Tacoma, WA, with the result that the Tacoma officer drove his vehicle through the attacking mob to a position of safety. The predictable

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like to share with all of you the case of a Tennessee lawyer who has managed to “murder”—or, at least, cause “serious bodily harm” to his legal career by apparently advising a woman on how to murder her ex-boyfriend and father of her child,

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like to take a quick look at a case out of Chicago in which a man who shot someone in the back of the head is claiming that he did so in lawful self-defense.  The prosecution, as one might imagine, is struggling to imagine

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 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