attending a legal seminar: ideas for questions?

[sidheshooter]

About a week from today, I will be attending a concealed carry legal review seminar, featuring a representative of my local county prosecutor's office and an experienced local defense attorney who will be discussing a justifiable shooting scenario by a legally armed civilian.

These litigation experts will be discussing the scenario from their respective positions and responsibilities, and then opening the floor for questions.

I want to be able to take full advantage of the opportunity to hear first hand from BAR experts as to concealed carry lethal encounter considerations, so I'm throwing it out here to brainstorm some question ideas.

Once the thing gets rolling, I'm sure all the participants (I'm one of the first registered; it's held to 100 folks) will have plenty of questions, but I want to be in a position to milk this thing for all it's worth if things are slow at first.

Granted, some of the information might be specific to my jurisdiction, but I'd still be interested in what sorts of general things you all would ask, assuming that the two panelists don't cover it in the opening presentations?

Thanks in advance for any ideas...

I'm posting here because I think the mindset in this subforum is conducive to ideas and, as well, having good information is critical to forming good strategies for aftermath survival, second only to S&T for the incident itself (for which there is ample training out there already). That's the idea behind a post here instead of legal, because this is a seminar specific to defensive work and the defense in court of same, and not to other legal/legislative considerations.

 

[JoeSlomo]

I would ask how the state views an unarmed attacker using unlawful force.
Does the state expect you to take a beating or fight without a weapon against an apparently unarmed opponent, or are you authorized to threaten and use deadly force to defend yourself. Does the state consider using a closed fist to strike with as "deadly force"?

Some defense laws are worded so that "force" and "deadly force" are 2 different categories. While a bad guy may simply be using force, by the time he elevates to "deadly" force, it may be too late for the good guy, and a citizen shouldn't have to take a beating before they are "entitled" to use deadly force.

 

[Mikhail Weiss]

How many people have been convicted in any court for using a modified gun in an otherwise justifiable self defense shooting, wherein modification to the gun was the very reason for said conviction? i.e. the shooting was justifiable, but hey, you had a Burwell trigger job on that thing, or you used a drop-in kit to lighten up the trigger pull, so you're going in the clink...

 

[wishin]

I would find it interesting to discuss the issue of a credible self-defense theory when the shooter actually starts the altercation for whatever reason, but it's escalated to a life or death decision by the other person, resulting in his death.