CA · jury_instructions
CALCRIM No. 3472
Right to Self-Defense: May Not Be Contrived
A person does not have the right to self-defense if he or she provokes a
fight or quarrel with the intent to create an excuse to use force.
[However, if the defendant used only non-deadly force, and the opponent
responded with such sudden and deadly force that the defendant could
not withdraw from the fight, then the defendant had the right to defend
(himself/herself) with deadly force and was not required to try to stop
fighting.]
New January 2006; Revised February 2016, March 2017, September 2022
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- calcrim-2023
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