September 23, 2009
Prosecution starts in murder trial of ex-deputy
Prosecutors called their first witnesses today in what is expected to be a two-day preliminary hearing to determine if former Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Chu Vue will be tried for murder in last year's purported love-triangle shooting death of California correctional officer Steve Lo.
Most of the morning's Sacramento Superior Court testimony in front of Judge Ronald W. Tochterman had a Sacramento police sergeant recounting the extensive cellular telephone records and video surveillance footage. Prosecutors contend this evidence will show a pattern of Vue and three co-defendants, including two of his brothers, casing out the victim's house weeks before the Oct. 15 shooting and then carrying out the attack.
Investigators believe Vue plotted the killing because Lo was having an affair with the ex-deputy's wife…
LINK - SacBee.com
