Popcorn Shooter Trial Day 6: Video Consistent with Apparent Lawful Self-Defense

Law of Self Defense - A podcast by Attorney Andrew F. Branca

Yesterday was the sixth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. The defense presented an additional three witnesses throughout the day. Two of those—Vivian Reeves, the wife of Curtis Reeves, and Dr. Donna Cohen, an expert on aging—were frankly of limited interest, for reasons I’ll discuss below. The final witnes...