How have courts interpreted "reasonable belief" in the California Penal Code?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Alonzo C., In re, 151 Cal.Rptr. 192, 87 Cal.App.3d 707 (Cal. App. 1978):
Even before the 1957 amendment to Penal Code section 836, subdivision (1), using the language "reasonable belief," the courts read such language into the statute (see Packer v. Sillas, supra, 57 Cal.App.3d 206, 212, 128 Cal.Rptr. 907, and cases cited).
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