Failure to Instruct on ‘Imperfect Self-Defense’ Amounted to Federal Constitutional Error
The California Supreme Court held yesterday that the Third District Court of Appeal too casually concluded that a trial court’s failure to instruct a jury on “imperfect self-defense” in a murder case was harmless error, reversing the judgment and remanding the case for a more thorough analysis, under the appropriate standard.
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