The People v. Wang CA2/3

BACKGROUND

Viewed in accordance with the usual rule of appellate review (People v. Ochoa (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1199, 1206), the evidence established the following. 1. Prosecution evidence. Defendant Wang and the victim, Yang Yang, were married in China and subsequently moved to the United States. At the time Yang was killed, in November 2010,1 they had a four-year-old daughter, Tiffany. Hong Moc testified he and Yang met at church in September 2010, and became romantically involved. Yang began staying at Moc’s house three or four nights a week, and then moved in with him in November. Tiffany stayed with Yang and Moc on the weekends, and with Wang during the week. On November 9 or 10, Moc accompanied Yang to consult a divorce attorney. On November 12, Wang called 911 to report he had just returned from a one-week trip overseas to discover that his wife had taken their daughter and was refusing to tell him where she was located.2 Deputy Sheriff Ray Huang responded to the call. Wang told Huang he had returned from a business trip to find that his wife and daughter were no longer at the apartment: “[Wang] stated that his wife took all her belongings and her daughter’s belongings and…