I recently came across a 2011 self defense case in which the prosecution, the defense, and the judge all got the law completely backwards on the reading of a brief and rather straightforward self defense statute. The result was that the defendant, who might well have been acquitted on the basis of s...

I realize the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case is in Florida, and this (obviously) is a Minnesota forum, but I've seen a tsunami of headlines by the mainstream media this past week about how George Zimmerman has allegedly waived his right to a pre-trial "Stand-Your-Ground" hearing, and...