California Court of Appeal

Conviction for murder involving the personal use of a deadly weapon and committed by an active participant in a criminal street gang to further the activities of that gang, as well as active participation in a criminal street gang, is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) something more than a shared ideology or philosophy, or a name that contains the same word, must be shown before multiple units can be treated as a whole when determining whether a group constitutes a criminal street gang; and 2) only the Small Town Peckerwoods, and not some larger Peckerwood group, may be considered in assessing appellant's claims of evidentiary insufficiency.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/22/2008
• Published 10/22/2008

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• California Court of Appeal

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