Rights and Responsibility Weapons Study Guide

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LEGAL FEES Even in the best of outcomes. in which no criminal charges against you are pressed and no civil suit is filed. you will usually still owe your attorney at least several hundred dollars. just to represent you at a hail hearing or during police interrogation. If you are forced to defend yourself against criminal charges in a full scale trial—or if the assailant or the assailant’s family sue you in civil court—your legal bills will amount to thousands. quite possibly tens of thousands of dollars. SUMMARY As can be seen from the above, even when an armed citizen prevails in a violent confrontation, he or she will still have to endure the vagaries of the criminal justice system. It is not enough to prepare yourself only to thwart an attack: you must also be ready for the legal aftermath that is sure to follow your use of deadly force.