The Andrew Branca Show

During the early morning hours of Friday, June 23, three San Antonio Police Department officers responded to the apartment of 46-year-old Melissa Perez, who appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis.  Perez fled into her apartment, armed herself with a hammer, and as the three officers stood just outside her front door they shot and killed her.  Those three officers have now been charged...

The Maryland Supreme Court recently took a hard look at tool mark evidence--specifically, the matching of bullets to specific firearms--and in a 6-3 decision cast a large doubt on the integrity of such evidence. Join me LIVE at 3 PM ET today as we read and evaluate the decision of Abruquah v. State, 2023 Md. LEXIS 297 (MD Supreme Court 2023). BECOME A LAW OF SELF DEFENSE MEMBER FOR JUST 99¢! Not y...

The terrible news of the Titanic submarine appearing to be lost at see with passengers aboard raises an interesting legal question--would it be lawful for some of the passengers to kill others so that their limited oxygen supply would last long, increasing the prospects for the killers to survive to rescue? An actual real-world case involving castaways at sea who killed one of their fellow survivo...

Today's show covers five use-of-force videos with interesting lessons to document. The first three videos are: 1. Use of OC Spray against a knife robbery. 2. Angry homeowner with pistol in hand yells at workers in street. 3. Algerian man attacks French woman & child in home. The next two videos are of defensive gun uses, and both illustrate why it might well be tactically imperative and l...

Today's LIVE show will cover THREE use-of-force events caught on video! 1. Man stones homes, is stopped using golf cart as weapon! Lawful? Deadly force? (Open-access!) 2. 14yo shoots pursuing cop THIS FAST! Useful to document how quickly even a "child" can shoot you? Yep! (Members-Only!) 3. Motorcycle thieves gunned down! Defense of property? (Members-Only) NOTE: Because of the viol...

Yesterday, a New York City grand jury indicted Daniel Penny, who had been charged with second-degree (reckless) manslaughter in the choke-hold death of Jordan Neely on a NYC subway on May 1.   Penny has claimed that he put Jordan in a restraining choke-hold position because Jordan had been making violent threats to the passengers on the subway car, and Penny was attempting to hold him for police. ...

Today's Law of Self Defense show breaks down a use-of-force event caught on video, in which a much larger aggressor goes hands on with a much smaller defender, and the defender responds to the aggressor's hands by shooting him dead. Lawful self-defense, or excessive defensive force murder? BECOME A LAW OF SELF DEFENSE MEMBER FOR JUST 99¢! Not yet a Law of Self Defense Member? WHY NOT? Tr...

Today's show will address the question of whether displaying a gun towards another person for the purpose of changing their behavior is an act of deadly force--meaning, that you must first have been facing a deadly force threat, or your display of the gun would constitute felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. This question was addressed directly by a recent Florida state Supreme Cou...

Last Friday a black woman, Ajike Owens, was shot and killed by a white woman, Susan Lorincz, in Ocala FL, as Owens angrily approached Lorincz' front door over a years-long simmering acrimonious relationship. After several days of investigation Lorincz has been charged with manslaughter and other criminal offenses. I've not yet seen a sufficiently comprehensive set of facts that would all...

This year is the ten-year anniversary of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who successfully defended himself against a lethal attack by Trayvon Martin---and thus it should come as no surprise that the law side of the racial grievance industrial complex is using the opportunity to foster yet more racial hate and division by propagandizing and outright lying about the facts and law of that case. Ye...

Table of Contents w/ timestamps 9:28 Travis Rudolph trial, voluntary manslaughter, imperfect self-defense 18:20 Attacked by myself in wilderness, kill attacker, no witnesses. 22:20 Gasoline prankster: Defensive display appropriate? 32:45 Is defensive display of gun while on own property is a crime? 37:05 Soft stand-your-ground versus hard stand-your-ground. 43:45 PTSD, bystanders frightening to me...

You might believe that if you keep yourself within the plain English reading of a statute, you'd be safe from criminal liability. In fact, you'd be mistaken in that belief. Statutes don't mean what their plain English reading might suggest they mean. As a result, following the plain English reading of a statute can easily trap you into a lengthy prison sentence. In doing a periodic...

Today's show will provide legal analysis and commentary on two gasoline-related use-of-force videos that recently came across my desk. In the first video, a prankster pours apparent gasoline (actually water) over the hoods of occupied cars, almost getting himself shot. In the second, a woman in a car at a gas station is confronted by a man who opens her car doo, and she shoots him. Learn how...

A Tennessee homeowner confronts several armed car thieves breaking into his vehicles in his driveway at o-dark-thirty.  Suddenly, the thieves began shooting at the homeowner--and the homeowner returns defensive fire. In all, at least 28 rounds were exchanged in the gun fight before the thieves fled. When the cops show up to the scene of the gun fight, who gets arrested and charged with a felony? ...

In today's show we cover the recent successful appeal of a Washington state woman who had overturned her conviction on a charge of first-degree (reckless, unintentional) manslaughter over the stabbing death of abusive boyfriend.  The reason for the reversal of the conviction? The woman's trial attorney--and, apparently, the trial court itself--MISTAKENLY believed that self-defense was no...

Found myself with some unexpected time this morning, so doing a quick impromptu update on the Daniel Penny "subway chokehold" prosecution/persecution in NYC. Join me LIVE at 10:30 AM ET! Daniel Penny GiveSendGo:   https://www.givesendgo.com/daniel_penny?s=01 #DanielPenny #JordanNeely AMERICAN LAW COURSES Get a law-school level education in typical first-year (1L) law classes, including c...

Yesterday Daniel Perry, convicted in the Texas shooting of a BLM protester, was sentenced, and today news broke that Daniel Penny, the man who choked a threatening homeless man (#JordanNeely) on a NYC subway, will be criminally charged tomorrow. I cover both news stories LIVE today! Join us LIVE at 6 PM ET! BREAKING: Sgt Daniel Perry sentenced to 25 years for fatal 2020 shooting of gun-toting BLM...

My good friend Kurt Schlichter yesterday published an opinion piece titled "We Must Defend Self-Defense."  I myself have not yet read the piece, so I'll be doing a cold-reading of it on today's LIVE stream.  Let's see TOGETHER what Kurt has to say on self-defense! Incidentally, I'll be having lunch with Kurt later this week--I'll chat with him about coming on thi...

Just a quick, impromptu on-the-road live show to catch up on #DanielPerry #JordanNeely, take questions live, and more! AMERICAN LAW COURSES Get a law-school level education in typical first-year (1L) law classes, including criminal law, constitutional law, evidence, property, and more, at a fraction of the cost and time of law school, and without any of the political toxicity of today's law s...

We're less than two weeks from launching the summer semester of our American Law Courses with our first ever course on Constitutional Law. This ConLaw course will be taught at a law school level, each Wednesday of the 14 week ALC summer semester, and at a fraction of the cost and time commitment of going to law school. Best of all, we've managed to recruit our "dream professor"...

Is a BB-g@n a DEADLY WEAPON?  A March 2023 court of appeals decision out of Colorado says it IS! In this LIVE show we'll explore how the court arrived at that conclusion.  Even better, good friend Attorney Steve. Gosney has written extensively on precisely this topic in his excellent book, "Ideas & Answers in the Law" (available at https://www.stevegosney.com), and we'll be...

In 2018 Officer William Darby, accompanied by two fellow officers, responded to the home of a suicidal Jeffrey Parker, who sat on his couch with a gun to his head. After Parker ignored repeated demands to put down his gun, Darby fired a single shotgun round into Parker, causing mortal injury.  Darby would be charged with murder for this shooting.  His pre-trial self-defense immunity plea was rejec...

Today's LIVE show is just a quick one on yet ANOTHER "LEGAL EXPERT" offering "EXPERT LEGAL ADVICE" on use-of-force law, and being 100% WRONG. Indeed, following this "expert legal advice" could well end up with you NEEDING to be CARRIED BY SIX. GUARANTEE LAW OF SELF DEFENSE IN YOUR CORNER FOR JUST 82 CENTS! Guarantee that you don't find your liberty in the ha...

The gun control propagandists have launched a fresh wave of attacks on both gun ownership and self-defense, and of course the mainstream media is fully on board in driving forward this propaganda war on our civil rights. I've three examples of recent media reporting on the self-defense doctrine of "stand-your-ground."  Two of these, from PBS and FOX News, host "experts" (n...

A man is being attacked by a leashed dog, apparently with the allowance of the owner. Is the dog attack a deadly force attack on the man? Can deadly force be used by the man to stop the attack? Against the dog? Against the owner?  What would be the legal doctrines at play?  #pittbull  AMERICAN LAW COURSES Get a law-school level education in typical first-year (1L) law classes, including criminal l...