How have courts treated a defense request for imperfect self-defense instruction?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ordonez, B238528 (Cal. App. 2013):
Here, however, the evidence proffered by the defense "simply was not substantial enough to merit the requested jury instruction." (People v. Booker (2011) 51 Cal.4th 141, 183 [defense request for imperfect self-defense instruction properly refused because evidence, including the defendant's own contradictory accounts of the stabbing, was not
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