Can a jury find that a defendant committed murder with intent to achieve a gang expert's "predicted effect"?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Harris, B266099 (Cal. App. 2017):
Cal.App.4th 347, 353 [jury could find defendant committed murder with intent to achieve the gang expert's "predicted effect of intimidating rival gang members and neighborhood residents, thus facilitating future crimes committed by himself and his fellow gang members"]; People v. Albillar, supra, 51 Cal.4th at p. 62 [jury presented with two competing inferences was "entitled to credit the evidence that the attack on [Ike] was gang related, not [personal]."])23
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