People v. Resendez
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed his assault convictions, arguing that under People v. Prunty, (2015) 62 Cal.4th 59, the prosecution failed to present sufficient evidence of predicate offenses to establish the existence of a criminal street gang under the California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (the STEP Act), Pen. Code, 186.20 et seq. The Court of Appeal held that there was no evidence of a connection between the gang and the subsets in Purty. However, in this case, there was ample evidence of that connection where collaboration, association, and direct contact among the various subsets of the East Side Bolen Parque gang. The evidence clearly allowed the jury to infer both that defendant and the subset that committed the predicate offenses identified with the larger East Side Bolen gang and that they shared connections with each other. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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