P. v. Vang CA3
In May 2015, a jury found defendant Kou Vang guilty of causing injury to another while he drove under the influence of alcohol, as well as causing injury to another while he drove with a level of blood alcohol over 0.08 percent. It also sustained allegations that defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury on a nonaccomplice. (There had been a bifurcated allegation of a previous conviction for driving under the influence, but the parties apparently agreed to leave it unadjudicated without any formal ruling on it.) Defendant previously had entered a plea of no contest to driving with a suspended license. The trial court sentenced him to five years in state prison. Defendant appealed; briefing was completed in November 2016.
Defendant contends the trial court erred in refusing his request for an instruction that his passenger’s testimony must be corroborated if the jury found the passenger to be an accomplice. He also contends the jury should have been instructed that it
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