Does the Attorney General have a duty to revise or improve upon an accurate statement of law?

The Attorney General argues initially that defendant forfeited this issue by failing to raise it in the trial court. "'A trial court has no sua sponte duty to revise or improve upon an accurate statement of law without a request from counsel [citation], and failure to request clarification of an otherwise correct instruction forfeits the claim of error for purposes of appeal [citations].'" (People v. Jackson (2016) 1 Cal.5th 269, 336.) Defendant does not dispute that he failed to object to these instructions or that they contain a correct statement of law. Rather, defendant argues that he may nevertheless raise the issue on appeal because he has been deprived of "a fundamental, constitutional

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