Top Criminal Attorney Edward La Rue Offers Insights On A Case For Self-Defense – Cleveland, OH

Leading Criminal Defense Attorney and founding partner of the Law Offices Edward R. La Rue, in Cleveland, Ohio, provides insights on self-defense while stressing the need for legal counsel when making a claim in court.. For more information please visit https://www.edwardrlarue.com

Cleveland, Ohio, United States – October 29, 2023 —

With assaults continuing to rise across the U.S., criminal defense attorney Edward La Rue has this week offered interesting aspects on how an act of self-defense could play out in court.

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The founding partner of the Law Offices of Edward R. La Rue in Cleveland, OH, said it was every citizen’s right to assert a self-defense claim when accused of causing physical harm to another person that was threatening harm.

He said that self-defense is the right to repel force or violence by defending oneself with a reasonable and proportionate level of force or violence in one’s own defense. “That may seem simple enough by definition, but it can be considerably more complicated in real-life situations,” said La Rue

While each U.S. state has its own laws defining what self-defense is, and is not, they have certain similarities.

La Rue said: “One element is that it’s important to establish whether or not the threat, in a self-defense case scenario, was imminent in the first place. To justify using force, the threat needs to have been immediate. This can come in several forms, such as a verbal threat.”

He added that it is also essential to know that the threat must still be present for the self-defense claim. For example, if someone was a victim of an assault by an assailant and if that assault ended and there was no immediate danger, any violence against the aggressor would be considered retaliatory instead of committed in “self-defense”.

La Rue said it is important to show that a fear of harm was reasonable as part of a self-defense case.

“Many people might not realize that self-defense can be justified even if an aggressor didn’t intend to cause harm to the victim. In a case like this, we look at whether or not a ‘reasonable person’ would have perceived an immediate threat of danger of harm to themselves or another.”

La Rue emphasized that the responsive act taken in self-defense should be proportionate to the threat. “This looks at whether the response to a threat was proportional to the level of perceived danger,” he said.

“A person in a self-defense case can only use as much violence as is required to repel the threat. A self-defense claim will be unsuccessful if a person uses deadly force that could lead to bodily harm or death when the initial threat of harm was not serious.”

While a self-defense case is unique to each person’s particular circumstances, La Rue urged people to seek advice from an experienced criminal defense attorney to discuss their options and their legal standing in making such a claim.

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