OK OUJI-CR 8-47. DEFENSE OF SELF-DEFENSE – BATTERED WOMEN CASES

State: Oklahoma

Oklahoma Uniform Jury Instructions–Criminal (OUJI-CR)

OK OUJI-CR 8-47.  DEFENSE OF SELF-DEFENSE – BATTERED WOMEN CASES

A person is justified in using deadly force in self-defense if that person believed that use of deadly force was necessary to protect herself from imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. Self-defense is a defense although the danger to life or personal security may not have been real, if a person, in the circumstances and from the viewpoint of the defendant, would reasonably have believed that she was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm.

NOTE: Updated by LOSD, 10/24/17.