This page examines self-defense laws, including its definition, criteria for justification, and distinctions like perfect and imperfect self-defense. Key elements for a valid claim involve facing an u...This page examines self-defense laws, including its definition, criteria for justification, and distinctions like perfect and imperfect self-defense. Key elements for a valid claim involve facing an unprovoked attack and the immediacy of threat. It discusses exceptions and specific defenses like the "battered wife defense.
