Personal Defense

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  Was the Client’s Belief Reasonable? “etached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of a knife.” – Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335, 343, 41 S.Ct. 501, 65 L.E.2d 961 (1921). What is Reasonable? Most states employ a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBuPQgV8yBM I had a little chin wag with Brent Carlton yesterday. The president of comm2a.com (Commonwealth Second Amendment) and I discussed the case of Stan Sokolowski, a Lowell gun collector whose guns were stolen from his...

The "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011," known also as H.R.822 or "The Streets Aren't Red Enough Act" by the Brady Campaign has been talked about a lot in the news, but not many...

Perception, Memory, and the Eyewitness A lengthy discussion about eyewitness memory and perception is outside the scope of this article. The nature of a self-defense situation generally means that the client and the witnesses will...

  A self-defense case is fundamentally different from most other criminal prosecutions. The essence of the defense is that the defendant is the victim of an attempted or completed violent felony such as assault, rape,...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYwZ8gFhxi4 "Police said the man who was shot picked up an officer's gun that had fallen to the ground and, at one point, turned toward several police officers," charlotteobserver.com reports. Wait. What? "Police were called about a...

From cityofmadison.com : A 41-year old Madison man was able to stop an attack on a woman Thursday night by pointing his handgun at a suspect who was battering the victim. The gun owner said he...

Walgreens pharmacist shooting at robbers The holdup that led to a Walgreens pharmacist's firing after he thwarted armed robbery of Benton Harbor store.Watch video Jeremy Hoven is the now former Benton Harbor, MI Walgreens pharmacist who...

  "Homicidal or suicidal, that’s what you have to be to shoot a gun at police officers that are in your home to execute a search warrant, homicidal or suicidal . . . This was a...

  "I knew he was trying to kill me when he was smashing my head into the concrete." It seems Vanessa Mascolin was able to tell the difference between a "shoot" and "don't shoot" scenario...