Podcasts

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

(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 first of two parts for our News/Q&A

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense members only content! Today we’re taking a different tack on our content.  Instead of writing on some use-of-force event in the news–and especially not on the Walter Wallace case, which really raises no interesting legal questions, it’s simply a good shoot by the officers involved–I’d like to give

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense members-only content! Today we focus on the George Floyd-case court decision last Thursday denying the motion to dismiss the criminal charges against the four officers charged in Floyd’s death, with the exception of a single charge against Officer Chauvin that was dismissed.  As you might expect, I’ve been

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 we’re responding to an interesting question, related to a use-of-force event caught on video, sent to us by Tammy, one of our Platinum members.  Usually we answer these kinds of questions in our weekly News/Q&A Show (taking place LIVE at 4PM TODAY!), but given the

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense members-only content! Today we’re responding to an interesting question, related to a use-of-force event caught on video, sent to us by Tammy, one of our Platinum members.  Usually we answer these kinds of questions in our weekly News/Q&A Show (taking place LIVE at 4PM TODAY!), but given the

Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense members-only content.  Today we’ll take a look at a case that involves a defender sitting in his car in traffic who, during an apparent road rage incident, was approached by an aggressor with a rifle, and who successfully defended himself against that aggressor.  There is, of course, a