California v. Gutierrez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that rap video was properly admitted under Rule 403 to show defendant’s animosity toward rival gang and association with co- conspirators
• holding that a rap video was properly admitted when the defendant was charged with gang-related crimes and rapped in the video about his gang association
• observing that in Deal, “the Supreme Court clarified that a ‘second or subsequent conviction’ can arise when a defendant is charged with multiple violations of Section 924(c
• finding that a housing development constituted a “base of operations”
• observing 4 that in Deal, “the Supreme Court clarified that a ‘second or subsequent 5 conviction’ can arise when a defendant is charged with multiple violations of 6 Section 924(c
• rejecting sufficiency challenge to proof regarding racketeering enterprise where “the government’s evidence established that [the gang] was a continuing unit that functioned with a common purpose: the illicit sale of narcotics in and around the Melrose-Jackson Houses”

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