Defendant's issues on appeal are unpreserved and, in any event, without merit.
The court's justification instruction to the jury to evaluate the reasonableness of defendant's belief that physical force was required in view of whether a reasonable person would have held the same belief as compared to could have held the same belief, had de minimis effect and could not have led the jury astray (see, People v Goetz,
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