SELF-DEFENSE; ELEMENTS
To escape liability, the person claiming self-defense must show by sufficient, satisfactory and convincing evidence that: (1) the victim committed unlawful aggression amounting to actual or imminent threat to life and limb of the person claiming self-defense; (2) there was reasonable necessity in the means employed to prevent or repel the unlawful aggression; and (3) there was lack of sufficient provocation on the part of the person claiming self-defense was not the proximate and immediate cause of the victim’s aggression.
(Razon vs. People, G.R. No. 158053, June 21, 2007)
