Category: Self-defense

In NYC Self Defense = Murder

by · Jul 8, 2022 10:56 am

Progressive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged a 61-year-old bodega worker with second-degree murder for defending  himself against a habitual felon who attacked him.  Security video provided here by the New York Post shows  35-year-old parolee Austin Simon walk behind the counter and attack Jose Alba, knocking him down and threatening him.  Alba then grabbed a knife kept under the counter and fatally stabbed Simon.  Alba, who had no criminal record, was charged with murder and thrown in jail on $250,000 bail.  Simon’s girlfriend, who stabbed Alba in the arm during the attack, was not charged.

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A Second Amendment Case Ready for Cert?

by · Mar 25, 2021 9:30 pm

Kent noted yesterday a split Ninth Circuit en banc decision that upholds Hawaii’s very strict gun control law.  The percolating Second Amendment question out in the country is whether and under what conditions a law-abiding citizen can legally carry a gun for self-defense outside his home.  The Hawaii case might very well prove to be grist for that mill, but there is another case in the pipeline that might get there first.  My friend Prof. Josh Blackman has the story.

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