How have courts treated expert testimony on the "culture and habits" of street gangs?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Paredes, B247650 (Cal. App. 2014):
groups when such evidence was relevant to the issues at trial"]; People v. Gardeley (1996) 14 Cal.4th 605, 617 [recognizing that "[t]he subject matter of the culture and habits of criminal street gangs" satisfies the criterion of admissible expert testimony under Evid. Code, 801].)
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