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In what some might suspect was an opportunistically-timed news dump this past Friday, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann announced that she was dropping second-degree murder charges initially brought against Matthew Dolloff over the October 10, 2020 political rally related shooting death of Lee Keltner. Text version of today's content:  http://lawofselfdefense.com/blog FREE 5 Elements of Se...

Law of Self Defense News/Q&A Show (3/11/2022)

LIVE! Breonna Taylor Shooting Trial:  Analysis of Opening Statements

The jury returned verdicts of not guilty on all charges last night in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical.   I do not predict verdicts, but this finding of not guilty was consistent with my legal analysis of the case, as discussed fi...

Yesterday was the ninth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The defense presented only a single witness, whose testimony consumed the entirety of the jury’s day—defendant Curtis Reeves, himself.  Over the course...

Yesterday was the eighth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The defense presented only three additional witnesses yesterday, all expert witnesses—Dr. Michael Foley, a forensic radiologist whose testimony was del...

Yesterday was the seventh day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The defense presented seven additional witnesses yesterday, if we include carrying over forensic video consultant Bruce Koenig from the previous day a...

Yesterday was the sixth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The defense presented an additional three witnesses throughout the day. Two of those—Vivian Reeves, the wife of Curtis Reeves, and Dr. Donna Cohen, an e...

Yesterday was the sentencing of Kimberly Potter over the shooting death of Duante Wright. This was the “Taser! Taser! Taser!” shooting in which then-Police Officer Potter mistakenly drew her Glock 17 pistol instead of her intended Taser and shot and killed Duante Wright as he violently fought lawful arrest against three officers wrestling with him as attempting to speed off in his car.  A jury mis...

Yesterday was the fifth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical.  This was the day the defense began to present its case-in-chief, and calling its first witnesses.  Perhaps ironically, the first two defense witnesses...

Yesterday was the fourth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical.  The State moved through three more witnesses, which proved to be their last before resting their case-in-chief.  The defense then moved for a judgment...

Yesterday was the third day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The most important testimony of the day was that of then Homicide Detective Proctor, in the form of the recorded interviews of Reeves immediately after...

Yesterday was the second day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The shot that killed Chad Oulson also penetrated the hand of his wife, Nicole Oulson, leading to a second charge of aggravated battery.  If convicted o...

This is preparation for the opening statements Monday, February 14, in the murder trial of retired SWAT cop Curtis Reeves who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a Florida movie theater on January 13, 2014.  The show goes live at 10 am ET on Sunday, February 13. In this LIVE show we're going to cover the half-dozen or so most important statutes in this case, and as time allows collectively watch t...

On Thursday, February 10, at 4 pm ET, I did a LIVE interview Florida Attorney John Tehune, the lawyer who actually won that hearing for his client. John's been kind enough to agree to be interviewed for the Law of Self Defense community to provide us with his first-hand insight into that hearing in particular and self-defense immunity in general. I had previously covered John's win in a...

In today's LIVE Law of Self Defense Show we discuss the "No Knock Warrant" death of Amir Locke, as well as the death of the "father of Miranda rights" at age 92. Law of Self Defense Members can enjoy the video version of today's content immediately below, also on the members-only podcast, as well as in the form of a computer-generated transcript below my signature.  B...

This LOSD News/Q&A Show will cover a number of topics, including: Does Home Insurance Cover You Defending Against An Intruder? Missouri's Controversial Effort to Adopt Self-Defense Immunity What's With the TikTok "Door Kick Challenge?" Conviction of Kayla Giles, former USCCA Platinum Member Upcoming "movie theater popcorn shooting" trial NEXT WEEK! Andrew's u...

I've received numerous inquiries from Law of Self Defense Members to cover the subject of gun trusts. These are legal trusts that can be set up to act as the formal legal entity that owns firearms, fully-automatic firearms, suppressors, and other related regulated items. As I often note, my own expertise is use-of-force law, not gun law. That said, I know many excellent attorneys who do have...

Just this past Friday (Jan. 28) a lawyer friend of mine sent me a self-defense immunity WIN from Florida.  Specifically, the court in that case had conducted a self-defense immunity hearing for a defendant facing 20 years in prison.  After the immunity hearing, the court granted the defendant immunity from prosecution and civil suit under Florida's self-defense immunity law.  So, instead of a...

Today's LIVE show with Attorney Andrew Branca of Law of Self Defense will focus on a case out of Wyoming that is a great case example of why representing yourself as your own attorney is a bad idea--and also why a superficial understanding of the law can be an extremely dangerous thing.

Marilyn Mosby, the State's Attorney for Baltimore, has reportedly just been indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of perjury on a variety of mortgage and COVID hardship applications.  If convicted on these charges Mosby is reportedly looking at as long as 30 years in Federal prison--and Federal prison time is REAL prison time, with little discounting for such things as good behavior.  I...

Hey folks, We've now made it roughly 300 questions through the roughly 500 questions submitted as part of this past Saturday's Law of Self Defense ADVANCED Class--so we came back again today to tackle the remainder! Enjoy! TODAY ONLY! Law of Self Defense "RITTENHOUSE BUNDLE" Our Four Best-Selling ONLINE Courses at 60% OFF, SAVE $300! ADVANCED Class (Normally $200) State-specifi...

I only got through 120 questions in yesterday's Live Q&A, and still have almost 300 more questions to go!  So, join us LIVE for PART DEUX of our follow-up LIVE Advanced Class Q&A! (See the first LIVE Q&A in this series, answering those 120 questions, here: https://youtu.be/877wM3vcwGA) TODAY ONLY! Law of Self Defense "RITTENHOUSE BUNDLE" Our Four Best-Selling ONLINE Cour...

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Yesterday I was interviewed by Megyn Kelly on her Sirius show about the Kim Potter conviction.  Enjoy! LAW OF SELF DEFENSE ADVANCED Class January 8, 2022 THAT'S THIS SATURDAY! VERY LIMITED SEATS! Covers all 50 states! Streamed live online using Zoom GRAB YOUR SLOT TODAY HERE!: http://lawofselfdefense.com/advanced Until next time: Remember You carry a gun so you’re hard to kill. Know the law s...