Add to ORKGIn response to rising gang-related crime, California passed in 1988 the Street Terrorism and Prevention (STEP) Act. Among the tools it provides to prosecutors is civil injunction of gang behavior: a prosecutor may enjoin a range of otherwise legal conduct as well as conduct that is independently proscribed by the Penal Code. The first appellate challenge was People ex rel. Gallo v. Acuna, handed down April, 1995. The court modified slightly the terms of STEP to avoid vagueness and overbreadth and commanded that to bind a defendant to an anti-gang injunction there must be some personal, individual participation in the illegal conduct. This comment analyzes the Acuna decision to show that, despite minor modifications, STEP remains a powerfu...
California jurisdictions have increasingly used injunctions to combat the growth criminal street gan...
Gang members from elsewhere congregated on lawns, on sidewalks, and in front of apartment complexes ...
There were over 1.4 million active gang members in the United States as of 2011—an increase of forty...
In response to rising gang-related crime, California passed in 1988 the Street Terrorism and Prevent...
This Note first discusses different approaches available to law enforcement and courts to combat gan...
Since 1988, the number of California criminal street gangs has increased from 600 to 6,442, an incre...
This comment analyzes the new opt-out procedures being pioneered in California jurisdictions, with s...
This Comment focuses on how the multiple-punishment prohibition of section 654 applies to the enhanc...
This Note first discusses different approaches available to law enforcement and courts to combat gan...
The state of California has one of the largest and most violent gang populations in the United State...
California jurisdictions have increasingly used injunctions to combat the growth criminal street gan...
California jurisdictions have increasingly used injunctions to combat the growth criminal street gan...
California’s Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (Penal Code Sections 186.20 et seq.) wa...
Gang members from elsewhere congregated on lawns, on sidewalks, and in front of apartment complexes ...
In 1998, faced with a gang-violence epidemic, California passed the Street Terrorism Enforcement and...
California jurisdictions have increasingly used injunctions to combat the growth criminal street gan...
Gang members from elsewhere congregated on lawns, on sidewalks, and in front of apartment complexes ...
There were over 1.4 million active gang members in the United States as of 2011—an increase of forty...
In response to rising gang-related crime, California passed in 1988 the Street Terrorism and Prevent...
This Note first discusses different approaches available to law enforcement and courts to combat gan...
Since 1988, the number of California criminal street gangs has increased from 600 to 6,442, an incre...
This comment analyzes the new opt-out procedures being pioneered in California jurisdictions, with s...
This Comment focuses on how the multiple-punishment prohibition of section 654 applies to the enhanc...
This Note first discusses different approaches available to law enforcement and courts to combat gan...
The state of California has one of the largest and most violent gang populations in the United State...
California jurisdictions have increasingly used injunctions to combat the growth criminal street gan...
California jurisdictions have increasingly used injunctions to combat the growth criminal street gan...
California’s Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act (Penal Code Sections 186.20 et seq.) wa...
Gang members from elsewhere congregated on lawns, on sidewalks, and in front of apartment complexes ...
In 1998, faced with a gang-violence epidemic, California passed the Street Terrorism Enforcement and...
California jurisdictions have increasingly used injunctions to combat the growth criminal street gan...
Gang members from elsewhere congregated on lawns, on sidewalks, and in front of apartment complexes ...
There were over 1.4 million active gang members in the United States as of 2011—an increase of forty...