Doris Wise Montrose

I can watch this over and over and over.

The law of self-defense. Self-defense is an affirmative defense, so the defendant has the burden of producing evidence: He must put on some evidence from which a jury can find self-defense. But then the burden of proof returns to the prosecution, which must disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. It was not always thus. The English common law

Rabbi shoots terrorist during stabbing attack. (Video in article) Judaism unequivocally supports the fundamental right of defending oneself or a third party in danger. Two Israeli border police officers were injured in a stabbing attack by a terrorist on Wednesday afternoon. According to police, the attack took place on Hagai Street near the Ateret Kohanim

MSNBC banned from courtroom. The Wisconsin judge presiding over the case against Kyle Rittenhouse on Thursday banned staff from MSNBC from entering the Kenosha courthouse for the remainder of the trial. In a brief statement before the court Thursday, Judge Bruce Schroeder addressed an incident in which a person who identified himself as an employee

Yes, a skateboard can be a deadly weapon. SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) — A man was killed after being hit in the head with a skateboard in an act of self-defense during a fight in a Santa Ana Starbucks. Around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, a fight broke out between two men in the 3300 block of

“If the prosecutors knew this evidence existed, and knew the Khindri brothers had lied on the stand (as everyone suspected), they could be guilty of subornation of perjury.” Not “if”. And not the only circumstance of prosecutorial misconduct Photographic evidence has emerged online that contradict witnesses that the prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial put

LAPD sends a message to criminals. Los Angeles residents are living through a nightmare scenario. The local district attorney announced he’s releasing a 24-year-old convicted murderer after serving only six years of a 50-year sentence. Police are, at the same time, telling everyone, including would-be criminals, that they’re unable to quickly respond to calls for

Andrew Branca: This was, of course, the only verdict consistent with the evidence, with the law, and with justice. The State never had anything even close to disproving self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt, no case that a reasonable jury could possibly convict on, and despite that they brutalized this poor kid for a second time

An important post mortem analysis from Jonathan Turley. The prosecutors in this trial and all prosecutors should take note. Jurors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday declared Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts, capping off an intense trial surrounding the deadly unrest in that city last summer. Rittenhouse, 18, would have faced a mandatory life sentence if

“Unless you’re a seasoned combat veteran in urban warfare, you can’t begin to understand the near-perfect execution of complex dynamics, mental fortitude, and clarity exhibited by Kyle Rittenhouse, as he defended himself with near-perfect precision against a gang of thugs. This young man has a skill set that most LEOs do not possess. “In military