DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — In the last several days, self-defense laws have taken the spotlight after multiple shootings across the country. First, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot after ringing the ...

But prosecutors must nevertheless tread lightly with claims of self-defense since Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly passed laws in 2019 and 2021 making it easier for defendants to claim ...

There are 30 states with stand your ground laws; Ohio’s was signed in 2021. Since then, more defendants have argued self-defense after shootings, and many have been acquitted, The Dispatch ...

The first change comes as part of House Bill 452, focusing on self-defense. It works like an expansion of Ohio's existing "stand your ground" law, which already protected people from being ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A judge in Franklin County issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking — at least for now — part of a 2018 state law that expanded self-defense protections and ...

It led to a deadly shooting that tested Ohio’s changing self-defense laws. Dayton defense lawyer Patrick Mulligan showed a video that played a role in the jury finding his client, Georgia ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -In the past week in the U.S ... a person has no duty to retreat before using force in self-defense, defense of another, or defense of that person’s residence if that ...

"In Ohio, the self-defense law changed and the legal part of that is the burden changed," Channa Lloyd, criminal attorney and managing partner of The Cochran Firm, has said. "Previously ...