14 Cal.4th 605 (Cal. 1996) Cited 1,320 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that expert testimony by police officer based on conversations with defendants, Family Crip members, personal investigations of crimes committed by gang members, and information from colleagues and law enforcement organizations was admissible and gave jury sufficient grounds to find that group constituted a "criminal street gang" defined as an ongoing organization of three or more persons that shares a common name or identifying symbol and has as one of its primary activities the commission of one or more enumerated crimes