Tseng

People v. Tseng

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241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 194·30 Cal. App. 5th 117
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaDecember 14, 2018B270877California7,092 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Rothschild, J.

*119 Defendant and appellant Hsiu Ying Lisa Tseng, a physician, appeals from the judgment entered upon her convictions of three counts of second degree murder, 19 counts of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances, and one count of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. She contends that substantial evidence did not support the murder convictions and that the trial court erred in (1) admitting evidence of six uncharged patient deaths; (2) failing to unseal and quash a search warrant of her financial records; (3) failing to grant a mistrial based on prosecutorial misconduct; (4) reopening closing argument; and (5) failing to apply Penal Code 1 section 654 to the murder conviction sentences. None of her arguments are meritorious. We therefore affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Tseng's Medical Clinic and Practice

In approximately 2007, Tseng, a licensed physician practicing internal medicine and osteopathy, joined Advance Care AAA

*197 Medical Clinic (the clinic) in Rowland Heights, a general medical practice operated by her husband. When Tseng first joined the clinic, the patients came from the local Hispanic and Asian communities, the wait time for each…

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