California Court of Appeal

Conviction of murder and attempted murder as the driver in a drive-by shooting is affirmed over claims of instructional errors and insufficiency of the evidence to support the criminal street gang allegation under Penal Code section 186.22(b)(1), where the specific intent element does not require intent to further criminal conduct beyond the charged crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/01/2006
• Published 06/01/2006

Judges

• EPSTEIN, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lynda A. Romero, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Victoria B. Wilson and John Yang, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.