What is the test for "imperfect self-defense"?

"Imperfect self-defense is the actual, but unreasonable, belief in the need to resort to self-defense to protect oneself from imminent peril." (People v. Vasquez (2006) 136 Cal.App.4th 1176, 1178.) We understand defendant to argue that she resorted to the self-defensive act of slashing Regina's face with the glass pipe because she feared imminent danger when Regina knocked her to the ground or "initially possessed the jagged glass pipe." This scenario is not supported by substantial evidence. The evidence showed that defendant initiated the altercation by brandishing a

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