My question involves criminal law for the state of: California (Los Angeles)
My friend has been in jail for almost three years now and has been fighting for his freedom. He hasn't been getting any good representation that really cares for him due to financial difficulties. The incident was that he was coming from his security job walking up the stairs of his apartment when a couple people in a car pulled up in the parking lot and started shooting at him and to his defense shot back and shot one of the people. The person lived. Those people had threatened him before prior to the incident and now he is the one in jail for it. Hopefully someone would be able to help him. He's a good man and doesn't deserve to be in there. He has already lost his mother while in there due to an unresolved hit-and-run while visiting him in jail

