Yanqun Tan admittedly killed her boyfriend, a detective testified, by bashing him over the head with a hydroponic ballast they used in an indoor pot-growing operation spread across three houses in Sacramento and Elk Grove. Whether the homicide amounts to murder is the question a jury likely will decide now that Sacramento Superior Court Judge Joseph Orr bound the case over for trial after a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Tan's lawyer says it was voluntary manslaughter, not murder, because his 53-year-old client "snapped" when her boyfriend, Rufi Fang, demanded sex that she didn't want to give. She had been putting up with so much of his physical, sexual and psychological abuse, attorney Pete...
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