Judges ruled that the Castle Doctrine did not apply in the case of a Fayetteville man convicted of murder in a 2022 shooting death.

Louis F. Locascio of Law Office of Andrew S. Blumer. Courtesy photo On May 6, 2025, the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed a defendant’s attempted murder convictions because the trial court “instructed ...

Aristotle said, “Law is order, and good law is good order.” Although the law passed well after Aristotle’s time, his quote rings very true in regard to Ohio’s “Castle Doctrine.” Under the Castle ...

I take strong exception to Charles Prula’s characterization of my vote against last session’s House Bill 1926 in his letter to the editor (Jan. 23). I support the Castle Doctrine – the concept that ...

Authorities from Moore County Public Safety said the actions of an unnamed soldier who killed a utility worker in May near his home were justified under the North Carolina Castle Doctrine. That law ...

Read the very thorough article in Monday's paper about the Castle Doctrine and the killing of a 13-year-old ("Shooting draws attention to Castle Doctrine"). I sure am glad that doctrine was not the ...

MADISON, Wis. — A man who shot at two intruders as they fled after beating him in his apartment can’t invoke Wisconsin’s castle doctrine law to protect him from liability, a state appeals court ruled ...