PEOPLE v. RODRIGUEZ

No. S187680.

55 Cal.4th 1125 (2012)

150 Cal. Rptr. 3d 533

290 P.3d 1143

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOE RODRIGUEZ, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane Nichols , under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Grace Lidia Suarez , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Frank Ospino , Public Defender (Orange), Jean Wilkinson , Chief Public Defender, Mark S. Brown , Assistant Public Defender, Martin F. Schwarz and Adam Vining , Deputy Public Defenders, for Orange County Public Defender's Office as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell , Assistant Attorney General, Charles A. French and Brook A. Bennigson , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

CORRIGAN, J.

We are again called upon to construe Penal Code section 186.22,1 the California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (the STEP Act) (§ 186.20 et seq.), involving the activity of criminal street gangs. At issue here is section 186.22, subdivision (a) (section 186.22(a)): "Any person who actively participates in any criminal street gang with knowledge that its members engage...

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