People v. Greenberg CA3

BACKGROUND

Defendant began employment as a police officer in 1996. He married the following year, the couple had a daughter two years later, and they bought a home in El Dorado County in 2006. Defendant went on disability retirement in 2007 due to neck injuries. By July of 2008, the family home was in foreclosure and listed for sale. The couple separated in May and defendant’s wife began dating the victim. Defendant testified that he went to the shop where the victim worked and told him to stop seeing his wife because he wanted to work on the marriage. Defendant also warned his wife to stop

2 seeing the victim, threatening that if she did not, she would be sorry for the rest of her life. Over the summer the couple moved items from the home to their separate residences. One morning a friend helped defendant move a trailer away from the house; defendant’s wife said she would be moving items with friends that day and defendant did not want her using the trailer. Defendant had breakfast with his daughter, took some things from the house to his apartment, and then returned to the house. When defendant arrived at the house at about 1:40 p.m., his wife was there with the victim and the…