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Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  Today we take a look at a recent court of appeal decision handed down in California just a few days ago, on November 10, 2020, that gives us an opportunity to follow up on yesterday’s discussion of imperfect self-defense with another look at that same legal […]

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  Today we take a look at a recent court of appeals decision handed down in Illinois just a few days ago, on November 12, 2020, involving a woman convicted of murder for killing a man in claimed self-defense. A key issue in this case was whether

Welcome to this episode of our ONLY open-access content, our weekly News/Q&A Show. A transcript of the show is 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 Defense Podcast. In today’s

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content!  And, yes, it really involves a killer ballerina!  More interestingly, from a use-of-force law perspective, it also touches upon one of the most common questions we get here at Law of Self Defense: If there are only two people involved in a use-of-force event, and one

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like to share a small news item that will likely go unnoticed by almost everyone, but which reflects a matter of genuine “realpolitik” in today’s racially energized use-of-force cases—and therefore a matter that all of the Law of Self Defense community must be aware

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content! Today I’d like to focus on a recent decision out of the Washington Court of Appeals, just about a week ago—that’s how current our self-defense law coverage is, folks—that touches upon a number of issues I know to be of extreme interest to the Law of

Hey folks, welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense Members-only content, which I’m afraid is going to be a bit of a drive-by, due to other commitments today. Today’s content touches upon the Ahmaud Arbery case, which you’ll know has been covered here in considerable detail, including these posts: Felony Murder Based on Attempted False

Welcome to this episode of our ONLY open-access content, our weekly News/Q&A Show. A transcript of the show is 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 Defense Podcast. Be sure

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense members-only content!  Today I’d like to focus on a recent decision out of the Illinois Court of Appeals, handed down just last Friday, just over a week ago, People v. Jones (linked in the text version of today’s content). What’s interesting about this Jones decision isn’t that it

(NOTE: Due to a recent “upgrade” to our servers we find that we’re temporarily unable to upload our podcast files in the sizes we usually use.  We’re getting that fixed, but in the meantime it’s become necessary to chop our podcast files into two parts.  This is the second of two parts for our News/Q&A