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PEOPLE v. LAM

No. B212994.

184 Cal.App.4th 580 (2010)

108 Cal.Rptr.3d 877

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAVID LAM, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.

May 10, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Kahn, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Paul M. Roadarmel, Jr., and Blythe J. Leszkay, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

RUBIN, J.—

David Lam appeals from the trial court's judgment following his conviction for second degree murder of his wife. We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

To pay his gambling losses, appellant David Lam stole $20,000 from his wife, Susan. When police arrested him for murdering his wife, he told officers that his shame from stealing from her moved him to kill her and then to kill himself, but he faltered in...

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