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PEOPLE v. TOM

No. S202107.

59 Cal.4th 1210 (2014)

176 Cal. Rptr. 3d 148

331 P.3d 303

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RICHARD TOM, Defendant and Appellant. In re RICHARD TOM on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

August 14, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc J. Zilversmit for Defendant and Appellant.

Michael T. Risher for American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Stan Helfman , Mark S. Howell , Laurence K. Sullivan , Seth K. Schalit and Jeffrey M. Laurence , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BAXTER, J. —

On a clear evening in February 2007, defendant Richard Tom broadsided at high speed a vehicle driven by Loraine Wong, who was making a left turn from Santa Clara Avenue onto Woodside Road in Redwood City. Wong's younger daughter, Sydney Ng, eight, was killed; her older daughter, Kendall Ng, 10, sustained serious injuries. The evidence at trial showed that defendant did not brake prior to the crash. He had been speeding...

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