In re M.P. CA1/4

I. FACTS

Miao Miao Wang rented a room in a home located at 351 Faxon Avenue in San Francisco. On November 9, 2012, she left her room sometime after 8:00 a.m. to go shopping. She locked the door to the room when she left. She returned around noon to

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code.

1 find the house was a “big mess” and that the door to her room was “broken.” Her laptop computer was missing along with its case and a black suitcase. Bai Chong Liao owned and also lived in the home at 351 Faxon. He too was out of the house on the morning of November 9. He returned home when Wang called him to report the break-in. Liao found the house in disarray and that two doors were broken. He was able to tell that a gun was missing. He later discovered other items were missing—a tape recorder, a home safe, a passport, and a backpack. The intruders had also removed the quarters from a piggy bank and placed them in a plastic bag, but they had left the bag behind. A neighbor had a video surveillance system that captured a view of the sidewalk in front of 351 Faxon. The system had three different cameras focused on three different angles. The system recorded continuously and…