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Podcast: The Andrew Branca Show
Episode: Trust YOUR Lawyer with Self-Defense Case? Are You SURE?
Description: In today's show we cover the recent successful appeal of a Washington state woman who had overturned her conviction on a charge of first-degree (reckless, unintentional) manslaughter over the stabbing death of abusive boyfriend. The reason for the reversal of the conviction? The woman's trial attorney--and, apparently, the trial court itself--MISTAKENLY believed that self-defense was not a legal defense to the crime of reckless manslaughter.It is true that the legal defense of self-defense operates in a subtly different manner when raised against reckless manslaughter than when raised against an intentional killing, and we'll discuss j...