People v. Wu CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

Wu worked at a store on Jefferson Street in the Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco. He had an ongoing dispute with a man and a woman who worked in an adjacent store over whether both stores were permitted under their leases to sell the same types of merchandise. Around 8 p.m. on January 30, 2011, Wu entered the adjacent store and shot them both. After

1 hearing the gunshots, a woman who worked nearby came to the scene, and Wu told her to call police and said, “I killed them.” Wu was still in the store when a security guard arrived. A gun was on a store counter, and Wu told the guard he had shot the victims, who died at the scene. Wu later gave a recorded statement to police acknowledging that he had killed the victims. Wu was charged by felony complaint with two counts of murder. (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a).)1 The trial court suspended proceedings after Wu’s attorney raised a doubt about Wu’s competence under section 1368 so that Wu could be evaluated. In June 2012, the trial court ruled that Wu was competent to stand trial and reinstated criminal proceedings. But trial did not begin until March 2014, at which point Wu’s attorney…