One thing that is not on many people's minds while defending themselves is the legal ramifications of what they are doing. Charged with emotion and more concerned with your life and property or that of someone else rather than the safety of an attacker, one could easily neglect to think that they might be the one in trouble with the law because of the confrontation.Peter Hobart gives an excellent introduction and summary of this topic as well as some fine detail around it that is specific to those studying and teaching martial arts.
Laws vary greatly country to country, state to state and even municipality to municipality.
Most of his article centers around the state of Pennsylvania. The article is not dated, although the latest date mentioned in it is 1996. Much has changed in very recent years around the concept of Castle Doctrine here in the United States. Castle doctrine is a hot topic lately. Check it out.
And remember - Police do not have a constitutional duty to protect you. You're on your own out there.
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