A man accused of shooting six people following an altercation at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront said he was defending himself from a robbery, according to court documents ...

The New Year’s Day gunfire outside a Garden City bar has moved from the parking lot to the courtroom, where a Livonia man now insists he pulled the trigger to save his own life. Brian Jaron Lindsay ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Dominic Miller, involved in a shooting at a Chiefs rally, received a two-year prison sentence after a murder charge was dropped due to self-defense laws in Missouri.

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 ...

A man accused of shooting six people following an altercation at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront said he was defending himself ...