What is the test for perfect self-defense?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Salguero, B254320 (Cal. App. 2015):
danger of death or great bodily injury, this is termed 'imperfect self-defense,' and the killing is reduced from murder to voluntary manslaughter. [Citations.]"].) The defendant must "actually both possess and act upon the required state of mind." (People v. Sinclair (1998) 64 Cal.App.4th 1012, 1016.)
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