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People v. Vu
Opinion
Opinion
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Christina V. Kuo, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, William Kuimelis, Deputy Attorney General, Attorney for the Respondent: The People.
Alan Siraco, under appointment by the Court of Appeal for Appellant, Attorney for Appellant: Giam Thai Vu.
RUSHING, J.
Giam Thai Vu was charged with two counts of unlawful penetration with a foreign object (Pen.Code, § 289, subd. (a)(1)); sexual battery (Pen.Code, § 243.4, subd. (a)); making a terrorist threat (Pen.Code, § 422); rape (Pen.Code, § 261, subd. (a)(2)); forcible oral copulation (Pen.Code, § 288, subd. (c)); and first degree burglary (Pen.Code, § 460, subd. (a)). [1] Vu was acquitted of forcible oral copulation and first degree burglary but convicted of the remaining charges. He was sentenced to a total of 11 years in state prison.
On appeal, Vu argues (1) his testimony and cross-examination were improperly limited; (2) the prosecutor committed misconduct when she put a nun dressed in a nun's habit on the witness stand even though the nun had no personal knowledge of Jane Doe's character for…