title: AFTERMATH: Lessons In-Self Defense: What To Expect When the Shooting Stops
author: Jim Fleming
description: Jim Fleming, is a former police officer, a practicing attorney with thirty-two years of experience in handling criminal trials and civil tort litigation. He has served as an expert witness for other attorneys in more than a dozen homicide and firearm related cases and is one of the founders of Mid-Minnesota Self-Defense, Inc. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network and on the Legal Panel for CCW Safe. He has provided continuing legal education to attorneys across the county on the issues that arise in handling self-defense cases.
zlib_text: **A Killer’s Stunning Transformation**
  
  “He was choking me, and I reached in and pulled my gun out and shot him. I
  shot him. Because I thought he was going to kill me.”
  
  “You emptied the gun into him, didn’t you?” asked her attorney.
  
  “I emptied the gun in him, yes, I did. I am so sorry! ”
  
  Rhonda Glover sobbed on the witness stand, but a moment later, when Assistant
  District Attorney Bryan Case cross-examined her, she was suddenly a different
  person altogether. The tears were gone; her tone brittle. Her eyes were ice.
  
  “Ms. Glover,” asked Bryan Case, “your earlier testimony on direct was that you
  and he basically met at the threshold of the door?”
  
  “Yes, and he began choking me.”
  
  “He began choking you. And you are going towards him pointing a gun at him,
  right?”
  
  “Yes.”
  
  “Going towards him, yes?”
  
  “Yes,” Glover replied coldly.
  
  “And is that the way they taught you in the defensive use of firearms to deal
  with a dangerous situation?”
  
  “Yes.”
  
  “To go at it with a gun?”
  
  “Yes.”
  
  “And he