Self Defense News

In what was another test of the state's controversial Stand Your Ground self-defense law, Miami-Dade authorities announced Wednesday they won't charge a teen who waited outside an apartment building and fatally shot an unarmed burglar as he tried to escape.

In a memorandum filed today, defense attorney Peter John Moses says Thomas fatally shot 40-year-old Derrick Cottle only after watching his son get severely beaten and hearing threats against his family.

Zimmerman Attorneys Withdraw from Case: George Zimmerman's lawyers withdraw from his defense after they say they lost contact with the man who shot and killed an unarmed black Florida teenager.

A legal review and analysis of the events that led to the shooting of 31-year-old Eric Ramsey after he abducted and raped a Central Michigan Student found the deputy who shot him was acting in self defense.

Apparently Rihanna doesn't just use her microphone for singing, she uses it for self-defense too.

The Trayvon Martin murder case will boil down to one claim known by mothers everywhere.

David Koon has provided summaries of opening statements in the trial of former Little Rock police officer Josh Hastings , charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a car burglary suspect, Bobby Moore Jr., 15. Deputy Prosecutor John Johnson said Moore and his companions were committing crimes, but Hastings had acted recklessly and not in ... (more)

According to police, the man and his girlfriend got into an argument at the man's home on Dullnig Court around 11:45 p.m. Sunday.

Learn the truth about "stand your ground" self-defense shootings if you want to stay out of the Jacksonville Jail.

Yesterday, we looked at Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's latest maneuvers intended to minimize Illinoisans' Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.

Sign up to Booker Rising's RSS feed to receive updates in your feed reader or sign up with your email address below to receive the updates via email! The conservative Republican commentator opines : "As I indicated, Obama personally interjected himself into what many, myself included, believe was a clear case of self-defense when George Zimmerman ... (more)

Charles Givens, 51, gave up his case two days into the murder trial, which had started June 10, and gave his plea without any deal on a potential sentence, Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross said.

One day after the family of a man critically injured at an Orioles game wearing a Yankees cap speaks out, attorneys for one of the suspects says his client is innocent.

In this picture taken May 10, 2013, a monument pays tribute to civilians who were burned alive during WWII in Pidhaitsi close to Ukraine's western city of Lutsk.

Miami-Dade prosecutors will not charge a teen who fatally shot an unarmed man who stole a WaveRunner from the back of a family's bayside Miami Shores home.

A voice recognition researcher for George Zimmerman is discounting the methods of prosecution experts who claim that screams captured on a 911 call belong to 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and not to the ex-neighborhood watch volunteer.

Korde Lorodius Turner shot and killed Leroy "Little Fred" Yarbrough in self-defense in 2009, Turner's lawyer told jurors in opening statements of Turner's murder trial this morning.

This past spring, many of you may have heard of, or viewed news reports pertaining to Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's public service announcements that made national news.

MOBILE, Alabama - A jury this afternoon convicted Brandon Estle of murder in last year's baseball-bat attack of a former high school classmate.

A disabled South Carolina man was pushed off a moped and then beaten with his own prosthetic leg by an assailant who was arrested early today for assault, cops charge.