Halyna Hutchins on the movie set of “Rust” was dismissed with prejudice by trial Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer. The “prejudice” part of that means that the prosecution is prohibited from re-trying Baldwin on these manslaughter charges.

Last week special prosecutor Kari Morrissey filed a motion to reconsider this dismissal with prejudice with Judge Sommer—and that’s what we’ll be taking a look at in today’s show.

The basis for the dismissal with prejudice was a purported Brady violation by the prosecution. Brady is a US Supreme Court case that requires the prosecution to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense.

My immediate objection to this particular dismissal with prejudice on the basis of this purported Brady violation premised on this “Thell Reed” ammo was that the particular source of the live round is immaterial to the manslaughter charge against Baldwin.

In other words, where the Baldwin live round came from—whether from Gutierrez’ father Thell Reed or from props supplier Seth Kenney or from a local Walmart was entirely irrelevant to the theory of Baldwin’s criminal liability for manslaughter.

With that context, let’s dive into today’s show.

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Intentionally and falsely characterizing someone of having committed a crime is generally defamation per se, meaning that the person wrongfully accused is presumptively entitled to monetary damages. Even worse, when this kind of unmerited and gratuitous reputation destruction is done for reasons of personal profit—a few more YouTube bucks, for example--it would seem particularly contemptible behavior.

Today we explore the question of whether explicitly labeling former Deputy Eddie Duran’s shooting of Airman Roger Fortson as having “executed Fortson for exercising his Constitutional rights” might qualify as precisely this kind of defamation per se.

This question is, of course, prompted by the repeated publication of Attorney William Kirk, on his YouTube channel Washington Gun Law (WGL) of the explicit claim that Duran executed Fortson merely because he was exercising his Constitutional rights.

Promised links from today’s show:

LOSD: REAL LAWYER | The Roger Fortson Shooting: Awful? Lawful? Both? (5/13/24) https://youtube.com/live/Zy1xcbAU2l0

WGL: The Florida Man Who Was Executed for Exercising His Constitutional Rights (5/13/24) https://youtu.be/IWepSw11YiA?si=hO7QaGkgk1QbgflQ

LOSD: Sound Legal Analysis, or Shameful Misinformation? (5/15/24) https://www.youtube.com/live/JEf63eHv0ac?si=dnHROCOoL2N1pFPZ

WGL: Charges Filed Against the Deputy Who Ended This Man's Life Because He Was Armed (8/25/24) https://youtu.be/BPN8V2SgUkE?si=onqmYu0nW4j6SepR

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office: OPS Administrative Investigation (5/30/24)
https://lawofselfdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IA-2024-012-Final-Report-002-1.pdf

Florida First Judicial Circuit State’s Attorney Press Release (8/23/24)
https://lawofselfdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/State-Attorneys-press-release-information.pdf

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Police have identified the man who was shot by a drive-thru customer while he was in the process of committing an armed robbery at a restaurant in Santa Ana on Saturday. Steve Rodriguez, 60, entered the Cozy Corner restaurant at 426 N. Harbor Boulevard at around 12:45 a.m. with a black revolver in hand, police say.

Security camera footage shows the masked robbery suspect enter the restaurant, throw a bag in the direction of one of the restaurant employees and demand money.

Police say a drive-thru customer in a silver Honda Accord was stopped in the drive-thru lane by the window while the robbery was happening.

Before Rodriguez managed to flee the restaurant, police say one of the people in the Honda shot him twice in the upper torso.

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A man with strong feelings that the military actions of Israel in Gaza amount to genocide decides to charge across a busy street and tackle a man participating with others in a pro-Israel protest—and ends up shot in the abdomen by the man he attacked.

Now the shooter, Scott Hayes, has been charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and is looking at 10 years in prison.

(UPDATE: In the video I discuss that Hayes had also been charged with a civil rights violation good for 10 years in prison—that civil rights charge has been dropped since I recorded this video.)

It's being reported that Hayes has been granted bail in the amount of $5,000, with a variety of conditions including GPS monitoring, but this will at least allow him to go to work and such.

Presumably Hayes will attempt to justify his shooting as lawful self-defense. How viable is that defense, and how vulnerable is it to attack by the prosecution? That’s what we’ll be discussing today.

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So a video is making the rounds of the internets in which a police officer responding to a noise complaint is standing just inside the doorway of a home while the female homeowner shouts at him to get out of her house.

The officer refuses, makes a bunch of zany claims—such as “I own your house now”—and ultimately places the woman under arrest and handcuffs her.

Could this possibly be lawful conduct on the part of the officer? There are, in fact, a number of conditions in which a police officer can lawfully enter your home, with or without your permission—but does this video demonstrate any of those?

In today’s show we discuss the major categories of circumstances in which the police can lawfully enter your home—see if any of them apply to this video—and then discuss what your legal and practical options are to lawfully prevent police from entering your home unlawfully.

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NFL wide receiver Tyreek Hill is clocked speeding by police and pulled over. Once stopped police see he’s also not wearing his seatbelt. That’s two driving infractions right there—but that’s not enough for Hill.

Hill also decides to be unlawfully non-compliant with lawful orders given by the police for purposes of safety, to the point where the police must compel compliance by dragging him from his car, detaining him, cuffing him, and sitting him down on the sidewalk.

The bad actor in all this? I’d say that’s Tyreek Hill—but of course, a large swath of the internet disagrees with me, as usual.

Join me to learn & discuss the legal realities of traffic stops and obligatory compliance with police orders!

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You’re driving along, your wife in the passenger seat beside you, when a car cuts you off. That driver jumps out with a GUN in HAND as he angrily approaches your vehicle, spewing profanities. You’ve got your own gun in hand, as well.

What do YOU do? Shoot that guy in the face? Attempt to back away? Just be patient?

Join us today as we take a look at this video and discuss our tactical and legal options!

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Today we’re going to take a look at a video of a fatal shooting out of Cincinnati OH that many on the internets are characterizing as obvious self-defense, but where state prosecutors have charged as murder—and the prosecutors here are probably right, on the legal merits.

The reason this killing is likely unlawful rests on the element Innocence, one of the elements required for a valid claim of self-defense. Innocence requires that the person claiming self-defense was not the initial aggressor in the fight—obviously--and, ALSO, that they did not provoke the OTHER person into being the initial aggressor in order to have an excuse to kill them and claim it was self-defense.

And THAT’s the problem in this shooting. Let’s go take a look at the video, and discuss what makes this killing likely a crime.

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