Imminent Danger

“There's a couple defenses you can use in a domestic violence case. The first is going to be self-defense. So, you can argue that you're acting in defense of yourself. However, that requires that there has to be an imminent danger and that the use of force you use has to be reasonable based on that imminent danger. You can also use defense of others. So, that means that someone else was in imminent danger and you used a reasonable amount of force to defend that other person. And then the last one is choice of evils, which just means that there was a situation or another harm that could have occurred, whether that's another crime or something else, and you acted in this incident as to avoid that other result, which could have been worse than the result that you had caused.”

“The first is going to be self-defense. So, you can argue that you're acting in defense of yourself. However, that requires that there has to be an imminent danger and that the use of force you use has to be reasonable based on that imminent danger.”

“The first is going to be self-defense. So, you can argue that you're acting in defense of yourself. However, that requires that there has to be an imminent danger and that the use of force you use has to be reasonable based on that imminent danger.”

“You can also use defense of others. So, that means that someone else was in imminent danger and you used a reasonable amount of force to defend that other person.”

“So, a civil protection order is very different from a criminal protection order. Because, one, you have to actually as a petitioner in the case, you have to file for a civil protection order. So, civil protection orders are put in place for individuals who are victims of domestic violence. For today's purposes, we're talking about domestic violence, but you can get a civil protection order for anyone. It has to be a showing that you feel that you are in imminent danger, that there has been some history of either physical or mental abuse or threats.”