A man who initially faced a murder charge for opening fire following the Kansas City Chiefs’ 2024 Super Bowl win was sentenced Monday to two years in prison in a case prosecutors said was complicated ...

Preslin Turner’s lawyer called his client’s actions a textbook case of self-defense. “This is what self-defense looks like in the real world,” Aaron Sontz told a jury Tuesday. “It’s not scripted. It’s ...

After shootings in Columbus, suspects sometimes raise self-defense claims. Sometimes these claims are successful; sometimes they aren’t. The Dispatch spoke with a legal expert to figure out when ...

Fort Worth federal Judge Mark Pittman specifically named Benjamin Song as the person who nonfatally shot a police officer ...

An earlier appellate decision said deadly force, like using a firearm or a knife, can be used to protect yourself against death, injury or assault, if the force is reasonable. Prosecutors fear the ...

Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last week that an incomplete self-defense instruction required the reversal of an El Paso County defendant’s murder convictions. Demetrius Montez Martin was ...

A 2021 change to Ohio law is making it more difficult for prosecutors to secure murder convictions when a defendant claims ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Was it self-defense? That's the big question for Akira Fletcher. She's accused of shooting two women in Avondale, which resulted in the death of one of them. On Monday, Local 12 ...

At the beginning of class, Chijioke “Chi” Williams invites her trans self-defense students to “shake it out” and simply get moving. “There’s so many people with complicated relationships with their ...