Is a person's right to resist excessive force an application of the law of self-defense?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Nguyen, D070946 (Cal. App. 2017):
4. See People v. Adams (2009) 176 Cal.App.4th 946, 953 [observing that " '[t]he right to resist excessive force . . . is an application of the law of self-defense' "].
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