What is Required For a Self-Defense Defense in a Criminal Case?
It’s always nice to start these criminal defense articles with an example, so let’s just go ahead and do that here. Let’s say you are at a bar, minding your own business with your wife or girlfriend, and throughout the night there is a guy that just keeps mean mugging you. All night he is staring at you, he’s walked by a couple of times and “accidentally” brushed into you, and you’re pretty sure he’s eyeballing your wife. As the night goes on and more and more beers are consumed, it becomes apparent that this guy is not going to leave until he starts a fight with you. But you aren’t really one to fight. Never have been. But this guy just won’t back off. So, toward the end of the night, after the sixth “accidental” bump, you tell him where he needs to go and what he needs to do and what you’ll do to him if he doesn’t follow your recommendations. Upon hearing this, the guy punches you in the face, startling you but certainly not taking you out. In the heat of things, and wanting to end t
