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A father in South Carolina who fired his handgun in self-defense?and in the process killing an apparent innocent bystander?has successfully argued that he is not subject to criminal or civil liability under the state?s self-defense immunity law. South Carolina?s self-defense immunity...

In more self-defense law fun from the Sunshine State, yesterday a Florida appellate court ruled that Marissa Alexander is entitled to a new trial on the aggravated assault charges that garnered her a 20-year sentence. You may recall that the charges against Ms. Alexander arose when she got into...

Hey folks, I just wanted to drop a note to let you know I'm covering the George Zimmerman trial down in Florida for one of the internet's largest legal blogs, Legal Insurrection. Some of you may know me as a lawyer with a practice specializing in the law of self defense, others as that guy who...

I recently came across a 2011 self defense case in which the prosecution, the defense, and the judge all got the law completely backwards on the reading of a brief and rather straightforward self defense statute. The result was that the defendant, who might well have been acquitted on the...

Hi folks, A friendly member of the forum suggested that I might post here. I'm a lawyer specializing in self defense law, and I have written and lectured extensively on the subject (I wrote my first book on the subject way back in 1997--boy, I'm getting old). One of my favorite past-times is...

I realize the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is in Florida, and this (obviously) is a ---------forum, but I've seen a tsunami of headlines by the mainstream media this past week about how George Zimmerman has allegedly waived his right to a pre-trial "Stand-Your-Ground" hearing, and...

Hi, all, from a new member. I'm an attorney in his third decade of practicing law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with a particular focus on the law of self defense (hence, my user name) but I am looking to make my escape from MA as soon as my oldest graduates high school--perhaps to SC...