“Most of the gangs were born out of the demise of those parties,” says Cle “Bone” Sloan, a former member of the Athens Park Bloods, in his 2006 documentary Bastards of the Party. That same day, the California Supreme Court stayed surrender of the juror’s Facebook records until it could examine the issue. But during Serrato’s trial, Meza testified that his friend had nothing to do with the shooting. Retaliation against real and perceived enemies drives the bulk of violent gang cases that come across Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Solomon’s desk. Rapper and activist Killer Mike had an urgent plea for CNN following the vandalism its headquarters faced in Atlanta amid the George Floyd protests. But the pendulum ultimately swung the other direction. If a juror, overheard in an elevator, talks about a case, she says, that may be misconduct. 19. After a verdict has been rendered, she notes, the party attacking the verdict bears the initial burden of showing that extrinsic communications by a juror occurred. One former Hispanic gang member who spoke on condition of anonymity says it was his father’s war stories about being a heroin-addicted gangbanger that helped steer him away from the life. It was the largest award in the nation to come from the Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring Program Grant. If a law-enforcement officer comes into contact with a subject and identifies two validation items from the list, that’s enough to get the person entered into a validated gang member database for the next few years. This includes discussing the case in person, in writing, by phone or electronic means, via e-mail, text messaging, or any Internet chat room, blog, Web site or other feature.” (Ninth Circuit Model Crim. When the not-guilty verdicts were announced, Serrato couldn’t speak. § 2701–2712) and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (18 U.S.C. This has set the grounds for a constitutional showdown.”. 7’s prose really took off. Killa Mobb 666's profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. And in the manner that this particular generation has embraced a certain culture of chaos—their still-forming brains and jacked hormones looking for excuses to unstrap their nines and test their mettle—Ramos likens law enforcement’s role to fighting the tide from coming in. Staten takes that hope to juvenile hall and the county jail, where he preaches lessons absorbed after two decades in the game, even to those written off by the justice system. “At any given moment, jurors now have the ability to use their cellular telephones to browse the web for the names of attorneys or parties in a case, educate themselves through Wikipedia.org about the technology underlying a patent claim or medical condition, examine an intersection using Google Maps, or even blog and update their friends about a case through Facebook and Twitter,” McGee writes. A couple of days later, Serrato heard about his friend’s arrest and decided to turn himself in. Someone used a magic marker to draw gang “tats” over his small, skinny torso and the kid was throwing up gang signs with expert dexterity. Two years later, the police department launched its gang unit, of which Aurich was an early member. The first two weeks Serrato was home, he slept on the floor of his room and left it only for meals. Those early squabbles were primarily over turf. Then he was grilled. Ramos pulls out his cellphone and shows a picture of a smiling Hispanic boy of about 3 or 4 with his shirt off. The case is a significant one on a number of levels, not the least of which is that the five defendants in the criminal trial in question (the “Killa Mobb” case) are asking for a new trial after having been convicted of assault charges in a gang-related beating of a man in 2008. Starr experienced that firsthand in the Asian communities he got to know. Then, one day, a drive-by through his neighborhood left bullet holes in his mother’s house. “That’s how a lot of jurors have been caught,” she says. Authorities on the subject use the term “hybrid” to describe the smaller, less organized and more indiscriminate factions. Wise says that and the prosecution’s flimsy argument that Serrato was still gang-affiliated swayed the jury to acquit him of all charges. Before Serrato got a few steps down the sidewalk, his buddies converged and throttled him as his mother watched in the doorway. He signed to Grim Reality Entertainment in 2013 and released his debut album "From The Guttas Of Mighty Sac." App., 3rd Dist.)). HARMLESS ERROR OR NOT, JUROR NO. That all seems pretty clear—and for the most part, admonitions have been effective. Members of the Killa Mobb were being tried for a 2008 attack on a San Francisco man at a gas station. Others are less optimistic, saying the gangster lifestyle will always appeal to a certain subset of youth, like baseball or lacrosse. He flirted with neighborhood cliques in his youth, and has become intimately acquainted with the descendants of the gang culture throughout his past 19 years as a criminal-defense attorney. If Afghanistan is hell, home is heaven to this Blackhawk pilot. During the prosecution’s presentation of cell phone records, the jury foreman used his mobile phone to post the Facebook note, “can it get any more BORING?”. Credits: California Lawyer, April 2011 issue, page 22, authored by Pamela A. MacLean, a freelance writer in the Bay area. At least temporarily, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye blocked a Sacramento judge Monday from forcing a juror to turn over his Facebook postings from a recent gang beating trial. The feud was so long-standing that investigators would have to date the bullet holes at neighborhood crime scenes “to tell which ones were the new ones,” he says. “I want to serve my country,” he says simply. They read, in part, “Do not communicate with anyone in any way and do not let anyone else communicate with you in any way about the merits of the case or anything to do with it. Critics say law-enforcement agencies gloss over this or massage new statistics as cash-strapped municipalities look for places to cut. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael P. Kenny had ordered "Juror No. ON HIS APTLY NAMED WEBLOG, THE MISANTHROPE, a prospective juror in Ventura County called his fellow jury candidates “liars” and “bozos.” But that was before he became Juror No. The Oak Park Bloods (OPB), are an African-American street gang located in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, California. The two men bought a couple of 32-ounce beers and swishers, flirted with some female patrons and exited the store. Lunasicc - Gangstas Make Da World Go Round (Feat C-Bo, Mississippi & Steady Mobb'n) (Prod DJ Daryl) (A Million Words, A Million Dollars, 1998) 21. “He created an audience, and during deliberation he was playing to an audience that other jurors didn’t even know was there. “Everything in life is timing,” says Wise, the Sacramento defense attorney who represented Serrato and now employs him as an office assistant. Serrato spent three years in county jail as his trial unfolded. Luis “Freddie” Serrato still wakes up some nights seized with a cold panic. There were 2,944 total in 2010. Friends tease him from being a gung-ho patriot of Mexican descent. Thinking he and Meza were under fire, Serrato ducked his head as he jerked the car into reverse and turned toward the exit. But the defense attorneys weren’t satisfied. But it was Latinos, not African-Americans, who were at the center of the emerging gang culture in Sacramento, recalls Aurich, now with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. “This is a totally new animal,” agrees Hernandez. “A significant portion (of our cases) are based on ongoing conflicts between groups,” Solomon explains, adding that law enforcement agencies—the first line of defense—“spend a lot of time just trying to squash that.”. The validation subject needn’t have committed a crime, either. The night terrors are easy to understand when you consider Serrato spent the past three years of his life trapped in the 100th pod of Sacramento County’s Main Jail as his gang trial limped to an uncertain conclusion. Cal. According to Wise, a former prosecutor himself, the benefits of a gang enhancement are many for the DA’s office. Courts, however, are loath to find external communications prejudicial if they lack substantive content. They issued a civil subpoena to Facebook for complete records of the jury foreman’s account during seven months in 2010. They’re “more independent, not really tied into north or south, Crips or Bloods. “Another dynamic with our gang members is they grow out of it,” he says. Killa Keise - Turfed Out (San Francisco,CA) Hood 2 Hood: Blockumentary Soundtrack Pt. Then she asked the people she met a single question. In October 2009, the Second District Court of Appeal affirmed that ruling in an unpublished opinion (People v. Ortiz, 2009 WL 3211030). And he got feedback on his blog posts from a coterie of sympathetic online readers. Killa Mobb (47015981)'s profile on Myspace, the place where people come to connect, discover, and share. “It is a form of domestic terrorism,” says Chris Starr, an officer who specialized in Asian gangs while with the police department’s now-dissolved gang unit. Once on the panel, Juror No. Two of those years he was housed with Sureño gang members who told him who to talk to, what to wear and how often to work out (twice a day). Ask any juror if they want the Killa Mobb gang, or the Aryan Brotherhood, or the Mexican Mafia, to have their online family pictures after they return a guilty verdict.”. Aside from the stiffer sentencing penalties, prosecutors are able to introduce a defendant’s prior conduct and the conduct of the gang he’s being associated with. “A lot of the gang culture, it’s a creation of the district attorney’s office,” asserts Hernandez, who has challenged DA’s offices in Sacramento, Sutter and Yolo counties, among others. Lawyers on Facebook should not be falsely “friending” potential jurors, friends of jurors, or adverse witnesses just to get a look at posts walled off by privacy settings, Sherman warns. The problem—for judges, defense counsel, and ultimately the taxpayers who foot the bill for retrials—is how to protect a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial when jurors are awash in social media, potentially contaminating the integrity of the proceedings. But shortly after the jury convicted all five of the accused, another juror reported to defense counsel that she had become a “friend” of the foreman on Facebook, and that he had mentioned the case online during trial. Bar Assoc., Prof. Everyone is doing work,” adds Staten, currently representing accused members of a Del Paso Heights Bloods offshoot, Killa Mobb (short for “money over broke bitches”), in relation to a 2008 shootout with members of Fourth Avenue Bloods. An attorney for juror Arturo Ramirez protested the order by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael P. Kenny and said he would appeal it as high and as far as he can. “The DA’s argument was that he backed up the car to facilitate the shooting,” Wise says. Nelson was killed after she draped her body over her infant son, who escaped uninjured. … And some of them are extremely problematic.”. Consider: Reuters Legal has reported that jurors’ Internet research, blog comments, and tweets have called into question at least 90 verdicts since 1999. “They fear the police less now,” adds Aurich. Even those who think Sacramento’s gang problem is exaggerated acknowledge a troubling ruthlessness in the new breed. Thank you for visiting the Sacramento News & Review. Staten agrees, calling the validation process “vague” and overused, with local authorities needing only two items from a list of 11 to validate someone as an official gang member. “[It was] real Hatfield-McCoy’s,” adds sheriff’s department spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos, a six-year veteran of his agency’s gang unit. Late last month, five Sacramento County men were arraigned in Amador Superior Court on gang-enhanced murder charges following a September 27 gunfight at a marijuana grow on Carbondale Road. But too heavy a hand—findings of juror contempt, stiff fines, and even jail time—could further discourage people from even showing up for jury duty. Meanwhile, trial lawyers are doing everything they can to protect against juror misconduct. They’re victims of an ethnic gang war being played out in the neighborhoods, communities and on the streets of Sacramento. Veteran Sacramento cop Ron Aurich first remembers hearing the word Crips during a routine patrol in 1976. Then, the rock-cocaine epidemic of the ’80s attracted out-of-town elements looking to control Sacramento’s untapped narcotics market. “The total number [of gangs] is not as great as it used to be, but you’re developing a real hard-core gang element that is scarier than it used to be,” says James Hernandez, a Sacramento State University criminal-justice professor who has studied California street gangs for more than 25 years. Leslie Ellis, a jury consultant with TrialGraphix in Washington, D.C., says she advises her clients to monitor jurors’ Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter accounts and blogs during a trial to make sure none are discussing the case outside court sessions. © Trunk Beast / Day Six Productions (ASCAP). Many of the tweets turned up were from people expressing snap decisions on a defendant’s guilt or innocence. In the interrogation room, Serrato was offered a soda. They asked Judge Michael P. Kenny to question several of the jurors, including the foreman, identified as Juror No. Serrato, then 17, told his buddies he was out. In high school, the young man’s mother threw away all his red T-shirts. 1 Hoods 2 Gangs 2.1 Bloods 2.2 Crips 2.3 Norteños 3 Rappers and Rap Groups 4 Record labels 5 Links 6 See Also Fruitridge road (The Ridge) Oak Park ( The P) Mack road Florin road Del Paso Heights (DPH) (Deepest Parts of Hell) Strawberry Manors West Gate Meadowview Garden Blocc Valley Hi Gardenland Northgate Elder Creek (Creek Mobb, Double E; turf and OG black rag … The shooting took place outside of a barbershop, known as the Fly Cuts & Styles, located on Stockton Blvd in South Sacramento. After Brinsfield’s murder, prosecutors would argue the Serrato never really left the gang life. To speak with one of our California criminal defense lawyers, for more information about the company’s law firm, or to schedule a consultation, please contact us online or call the office directly: The Rosenfeld Law Firm represents criminal defense clients in Northern, Central, and Southern California, especially the counties of Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara, San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles, plus El Dorado, Placer, Yolo, and Solano. Sacramento Police Department Detective Brian Bell was the lead investigator and was also the People's expert on street gangs in Sacramento's north area. 1.8.). “They just move on in their life.”. ... Defense lawyers in the Killa Mobb case are asking for a new trial based on the disclosure of the juror's alleged misconduct. TRO denied Feb. 14, 2011)). The money will restore 25 deputy positions specifically intended to combat youth and gang-violence issues, the department announced. Detective Vu Nguyen, 37, chased a fleeing teen over fences and through backyards before suffering a fatal gunshot wound to the neck, media reports state. Killa Tay, Guce, & The Mob Figaz, Category: Artist, Top Tracks: This Ain't No Movie, Monthly Listeners: 17, Where People Listen: San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, Panorama City, San Rafael We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. “It really allows the district attorney’s office to dirty up the defendant in ways they wouldn’t otherwise be able to,” Wise says. Last August the Ninth U.S. Jailing over lyrics. Seeing other inmates with parallel cases break down sobbing, he came to the conclusion that he would spend the rest of his life incarcerated. One of the individuals was Johnny Brinsfield—loaded on alcohol and methamphetamine—who tried to rope the men into a fight. After complaining about the length of the 19-day trial, Juror No. Life in a jail cell with real gang members has left him in a state of constant shock, and a lifelong dream of joining the military has suffered multiple setbacks due to his rap sheet. “We’re losing guys at a tremendous rate.”. Brodie denied a defense motion for a new trial, finding that because Ortiz’s jury wasn’t “substantially biased,” the foreman’s misconduct wasn’t prejudicial. “Google mistrials” was the subject of a recent law review article by Loyola Law School Los Angeles student Amanda McGee (“Juror Misconduct in the Twenty-First Century: The Prevalence of the Internet and Its Effect on American Courtrooms,” 30 Loy. Meza was convicted of manslaughter and attempted murder. The issue arose last June in Sacramento Superior Court during the trial of five Killa Mobb gang members accused of a vicious beating. Designed by WebSiteText, LLC | Proofread by The Proofreaders. Late last month, five Sacramento County men were arraigned in Amador Superior Court on gang-enhanced murder charges following a September 27 gunfight at a marijuana grow on Carbondale Road. Any private contact during trial about the matter under consideration is presumed to be prejudicial (Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954)). “What chance does this kid have?” Ramos sighs. The term was a curious descendant of “baby cribs,” signifying a hard-turning youth revolt of sorts from the radical community activism of the previous decade. C-Bo, X-Raided, Killa Tay, Mac Dre, Fat Tone Monterrio Williams (born August 10, 1978), better known by his stage names Luni Coleone or Lunasicc , is an American Garden Blocc Crip rapper who began his musical career on the streets of Sacramento, California . “After that was done, it should be over,” he says. In August, the department also reveived $370,000 in gang-intervention funds from the state. 11-397 (E.D. 7’S Internet postings are no longer unusual. Then Juror No. EBK means “Everybody Killa” which means anybody can get it no matter what set or gang someone claims. Guidance Comm., Opinion 2009-02 (Mar. And jurors’ tasteless criticism about boring testimony or incompetent lawyers may not rise to that level. Staten says he finally got the young man to read a copy of Malcolm X’s biography. Consider them the YouTube generation of gangsterism: Brazen, self-aggrandizing and primed for mayhem. When Judge Brodie learned of Juror No. 7, followed by San Francisco. The splinter groups started peeling off around the late ’90s. I believe in redemption.”. A day in the life of a Medevac pilot serving in Afghanistan. Short of confiscating all electronic devices in the courtroom lobby, then, what is to be done? An ethics committee in Pennsylvania recently said as much (Phila. As part of its investigation, Reuters monitored postings on Twitter for a three-week period, typing “jury duty” into the site’s search engine. Rosenfeld says the judge questioned his client under oath, without a attorney, and the juror was also cross-examined by the defense. He also released a group album with his rhyme partner, Yung Trim, in 2016. “When they get small, they get dangerous because they’re trying to do more and more crime to get on the map.”. In addition, the defense attorneys obtained five pages of posts from the jury foreman’s Facebook account. Put everything to sleep. In part mimicking the older kids at Encina High School, who were carving out their own little factions, Serrato joined a neighborhood clique called the Brown Pride Sureños when he was a teenager. Rounding out the top 10 are SoCal cities Inglewood and Santa Maria. 1 to sign a consent form to permit the release and search of his Facebook postings or be found in contempt. #Gourmaaaayyyy new slapped on all digital outlets go grab it video is in the way shot by @strichustle_tv #houston #texas #dallas #stlouis #detroit #Baltimore #newyork #sanfrancisco2southcentral #lasvegas #seattle #portland #boise #tacoma #sacramento #oakland #eastpaloalto #sanjose #itunes #spotify #amazonmusic #hoodrichkeem … The jury also found he committed the crimes to benefit the Sureños street gang. Demands for transparency could lead to more pretrial rummaging through jurors’ online lives, and more post-verdict motions for retrial. Her lengthy message included, “God has a plan for you and your life.” The state Supreme Court overturned the defendant’s fraud conviction, becoming one of the first courts in the nation to base its juror misconduct ruling on a person’s messages to a “friend” on a social networking site (State v. Dellinger, 225 W. Va. 736 (2010)). Mobb music rapper/producer from Sacramento, California. He had been selected from a jury pool in Los Angeles Superior Court, and he told the reporter that the defendant in the case was convicted. Brinsfield reached for something. Along with legal advice, The Rosenfeld Law Firm in Sacramento, California, offers experience and representation in other pertinent areas of practice including prison law, mental health law, appellate law, and federal criminal defense. “You’re always going to have dolphins in the net,” argues Staten. In April, sheriff’s authorities arrested fugitive Larry Dean Jones, 29, for participating in the December 2010 gang shootout at a Stockton Boulevard barbershop that killed bystander Monique Nelson. It’s a demented irony, then, that it was a pair of happy cultural occasions that brought Serrato and Pedro Meza to the Marconi Avenue liquor store where their lives would unravel. He bragged about seeing Judge Brodie’s sidebar “scolding” of lawyers in the case. “The main thing was to stop the violence,” Aurich says, and that meant pulling thugs off the street to calm tensions, even if the arrests wouldn’t be prosecuted. He was charged with murder and three counts of attempted murder, which prosecutors argued was committed for the benefit of a Sureño street gang, which would have added another 25 years to any possible sentence. A 2007 report on gangs by the Justice Policy Institute states that a “substantial minority of youth goes through a gang phase during adolescence, but most youth quit the gang within the first year.”. “I didn’t want to go,” Serrato confesses. This year, thus far, the department has recorded 1,954 gang-related calls for service. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department was recently awarded an $11.3 million grant by the U.S. Department of Justice. That included saying Meza had fingered him as the shooter, in an apparent attempt to get Serrato to flip on his buddy. Although Attorney may offer an opinion about a possible result regarding the subject matter of this agreement, Attorney cannot guarantee any particular result. Depending on whom you ask, Sacramento’s gang problem is either underreported or vastly overblown. Ramos lost his partner during a routine gang patrol through south Sacramento in December 2007. “We may be able to use them as a resource down the line,” Starr says of dropouts. Hernandez says another factor motivating law-enforcement agencies to exaggerate the gang problem is the grant money that’s available for gang units. “There would have been no theory to include him in that case without the enhancement.”. After g parkway was shut down ppl from g mobb got moved all around sac cuz they had no hood no more they started that shit up as b.a.y (bad ass youngster) some how that turned into starz. During a well-attended community forum in February, Sheriff Scott Jones declared youth and gang violence the county’s biggest problem, a message he said he took to council members Doris Matsui and Dan Lungren during a Washington, D.C., trip intended to cajole federal funding. Now starz got people from hella different hood bloods and crips but mostly bloods. Staten was already an adult when the Blood-Crip feud reached full boil in the 1980s. Lav from g mobb, lizk from meadowview, hemster ru from vhp and so on and so on. One of the site’s operators, 45-year-old He Ting Fuman, died from a bullet to the throat. Lease my beats here: http://www.kc-rap.com/lease-beatsProduced by Ghostt (ASCAP).
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