CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 3027
Affirmative Defense—Emergency
[Name of defendant] claims that a search warrant was not required. To
succeed on this defense, [name of defendant] must prove that a peace
officer, under the circumstances, would have reasonably believed that
violence was imminent and that there was an immediate need to protect
[[himself/herself/nonbinary pronoun]/ [or] another person] from serious
harm.
New December 2013
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
- Content hash
93f37806f4fa40cd033aa53e1a8c809045c6d2b00b17feb1d90b1fe02b28feff
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