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P. v. Long CA6
Opinion
Opinion
BACKGROUND
A. First Robbery Defendant was accused of robbing the victim on September 19, 2006, and robbing and raping her on December 3, 2006. We reversed his original conviction on the ground that the prosecutor had improperly excused from the jury all persons appearing to be of Vietnamese extraction. (People v. Long (2010) 189 Cal.App.4th 826, 848 (Long I).) The following account is derived from the evidence adduced at the second trial after this court remanded the matter. The victim was referred to at trial as Amy T., though that is not her real name; we will refer to her as Amy. She testified that in the fall of 2006 she took money for massages and sex in motel and hotel rooms that she rented in east San Jose.2 She got customers by advertising in a Vietnamese magazine. When a customer called in response to an ad, she would direct him to the hotel she was using, instructing him to call or text when he arrived. When he reported his arrival, she would give him her room number. On September 19, 2006, Amy was hosting “clients” in a room at the Best Western Lanai Garden Inn and Suites (Lanai Gardens). She answered affirmatively to questions whether she “stay[ed] occasionally” at…