[update: Thanks to David Hardy of Arms and the Law for the link.]
Keep in mind, as you read what follows, that I am not a lawyer, just a citizen trying his best to understand the rules I’m expected to live under.
Mark Bennett, a criminal defense lawyer here in Houston, on his blog Defending People, forwards “notes from the portion of DEA training dealing with the use of deadly force. [My source] tells me that the students would be given certain fact patterns and told to stand up in class and respond with the exact phrases described in the notes to justify a shooting.”
This is life-and-death crucial, but very long, so I’m reproducing the whole thing, with my comments, below the fold: (more…)