...also admitted into evidence, include a direction to "obey all commands without question fear or doubt." Trial testimony further revealed that Vice Lords were not supposed to testify against fellow Vice Lords. Many of the street dealers who worked under the defendants recognized that the defendants, along with Garnett and Bradford, were affiliated with the Mafia Insane Vice...Lords. The district court admitted the preceding evidence despite defendants' motion in limine to exclude all evidence of their gang affiliation. Some witnesses also testified that Thomas claimed he was a member of the Mafia Insane Vice.... 1991). We cannot conclude that the district court abused its discretion when it admitted evidence of the defendants' affiliation with the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. The...

...this petition show that Martin founded a street gang known as the “Mafia Insane Vice Lords” or “Mafia Insanes,” while serving a twenty-year stint behind bars in state prison...for murder. After he was released on parole in 1998, Martin returned to the streets. Known as “King Troy” to his subordinates within the Mafia Insanes, Martin...Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510–22, to intercept wire communications of Mafia Insanes members believed to be involved in the...

...street gang known as the Mafia Insane Vice Lords controls an area just west of Cicero Avenue along Adams Street in Chicago. A rival gang known as the Undertaker Vice Lords controls an area east of Cicero...locations in the neighborhood and * * * learned of addresses of possible offenders." Defendant, Sherron Dillon, Darnell Foxx, and Tyreece Roberts (all members of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords) were...wanted to become a member of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. According to Jaglowski, defendant indicated that the group at the beef stand was "assigned to go steal a van" so that the van could be used...

...gave names of specific people who attended the meeting. At the meeting, the gang discussed the killing of Randy by the Mafia Insane Vice Lords, a rival gang. The Mafia Insane Vice Lords are the...Blackstones and the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. By the word "war," the defendant said he meant retaliation, "Like eye for eye. They kill one of us; so we kill one of them." He said that they decided to...had been shot in Mafia Insane Vice Lord territory. They drove around there with the purpose of retaliation against the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. While they were in the car, Shaboo bent down and was...

...were members of the gang known as the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. ¶ 5. The first witness to testify on behalf of the State was Officer Norman Starks, an investigator with the Clarksdale...Starks further testified that Michael Ingram, a Mafia Insane Vice Lords member who was also known as Spanky, stated that Robinson gave the order to kill Hampton, and Evans was the "enforcer...." ¶ 6. Ingram testified that he was a member of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords with Robinson, Evans, and Johnson. He further testified that, on July 19, 2003, before Hampton was murdered, he had a...

...the gangs in the area of the murder which included the 3B's, Mafia Insane Vice Lords, Latin Kings, Latin Dragons and Gangster Disciples. The State argued that Officer Luna would be able to testify to...operating. When the men started shooting, decedent pushed her towards them and out of the way. Coleman testified that to her knowledge, the Mafia Insane Vice Lords were not aligned with any larger gang..., while the 3B's were aligned with "No Limit." At the time of the shooting, the Mafia Insane Vice Lords and the 3B's were at war, however, to her knowledge, no gang ran that neighborhood. When questioned...

...which he and Mr. Owens were brandishing guns while listening to music. Another witness identified the Defendant as being the "treasurer" of the "Mafia Insane Vice Lords" group in Knoxville and also a...possession of a weapon with intent to go armed. The report indicated that the Defendant was a member of the Vice Lords Gang, and prison records indicated he was an active member of the gang. Philip Jinks, an officer with the Knoxville Police Department, testified that he worked as an investigator in the organized crime unit. He began a drug investigation into the Mafia Insane Vice...Lords after a series of violent crimes involving that gang and the Crips. Additionally, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant on a home belonging to a Mafia Insane Vice...

...the charged crimes. They explained that Martin established the street gang known as the Mafia Insane Vice Lords while he was in prison in the late 1980s and early 1990s and that several of his...court's evidentiary ruling barring any reference to the fact that Martin formed the Mafia Insane Vice Lords while he was in prison. Meanwhile, defendant Bray filed a motion to dismiss the indictment based... Vice Lords by working with different members of the Vice Lords as they entered and departed the Illinois state prison system. The government argued that Martin's actions in prison were...

..., alleging it was not voluntary. ¶ 5 In the statement, which was published at trial, petitioner acknowledged he was a member of a street gang, the Renegade Vice Lords (Renegades), which was at war with a rival gang, the Mafia Insane Vice...Lords (Mafias). Petitioner stated two of the Mafias killed his friend and fellow gang member, Elijah McLachlan. According to petitioner's...

...the Four Corner Hustlers. He stated that the victim was a "five star supreme leader" of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords Nation. He testified that he first saw the victim a couple of days before the...drugs on the corner of Potomac and Lavergne, Ieshia Richardson came up to him and told him that members of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords gang had surrounded Pearson in her sister's apartment on North...he was not asked. On cross-examination, defendant testified that he was angry at all the Mafia Insane Vice Lords gang members on that corner and that he wanted to shoot all of them...

... Troy Martin ("Martin"), known to his subordinates within the Mafia Insane Vice Lords street gang as "King Troy," was convicted by a jury of a massive drug distribution conspiracy and sentenced to...memorandum, Martin suggests his lawyer could have called "other members of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords who could have testified that Mr. Martin actually forbids members of the Mafia Insanes to traffic...(if it were true) from the cooperating witnesses who testified for the government. In any event, as the government observes, "[t]he notion that Martin had forbidden narcotics trafficking by Mafia...

...called the Mafia Insane Vice Lords and that defendant was a member of a gang called the Four Corner Hustlers. The State then called ASA Thomas Driscoll, who had presented...

..."admitted" he was a former member of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords street gang. Mr. Woods told the investigator he joined...his criminal background and his previous affiliation with the Mafia Insane Vice Lords gang. Based on Mr. Woods's prior gun and robbery convictions, and because Mr. Woods was now found guilty of armed...court after Mr. Woods was required to participate reflects that Mr. Woods told the PSI investigator that he had been affiliated with the Mafia Insane Vice Lords and that he dropped out of school after...

...Insane Vice Lords, which is a faction of the Vice Lords street gang. The Mafia Insane Vice Lords are not affiliated with the Undertaker Vice Lords, and the two gangs were feuding with each other. Despite...the murders in his area because he knew that Randolph was the chief of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. Even though Randolph did not have any information on the shootings, he accepted Curley's offer. Curley.... Later that evening, McDowell was standing with several other members of the Undertaker Vice Lords gang near the intersection of Ferdinand Street and Lockwood Avenue. He did not observe defendant or Randolph, who was a member of the rival Mafia Insane Vice...

...know defendant. Randolph was a member of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords, which is a faction of the Vice Lords street gang. The Mafia Insane Vice Lords are not affiliated with the Undertaker Vice Lords, and...the police would drop the drug case against him if he helped them. Curley asked Randolph about the murders in his area because he knew that Randolph was the chief of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. Even...Lords gang near the intersection of Ferdinand Street and Lockwood Avenue. He did not observe defendant or Randolph, who was a member of the rival Mafia Insane Vice Lords gang, on the corner...

...Petitioner of its intent to present evidence at trial that Petitioner utilized the Mafia Insane Vice Lords ("Vice Lords"), a criminal gang based out of Chicago, Illinois, to facilitate his drug...remind[]" the jury that "he held a high-ranking position within the Mafia Insane Vice Lords." (Doc. 2 at 26.) According to Petitioner, the Government Case 1:22-cv-00230-CLC-CHS Document 13 Filed 09...committed prosecutorial misconduct during his trial "by circumventing the pretrial ruling prohibiting testimony pertaining to [Petitioner's] rank and hierarchy within the Mafia Insane Vice Lords." (Doc...

...testimony that Robinson and several others were members of the Clarksdale gang known as the Mafia Insane Vice Lords. S.C.R., Vol. 2, pp. 36. Robinson's counsel objected to the introduction of such testimony...shall be denied. In addition, the testimony of Starks to which Robinson objects established only that he and others were members of the Mafia Insane Vice Lord gang in Clarksdale, Mississippi. However, other actual members of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords — Michael..., Firearms and Explosives) testified as experts regarding their knowledge of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords — when the prosecution presented them only as lay witnesses. The petitioner argues that Starks...

...multiple-Defendant indictment charging members of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords street gang with a drug distribution conspiracy. Martin, the "king pin," was sentenced to life in prison. Before trial...

...Procedural History Lorenzo Robinson, a/k/a "Tymoochie" was a leader of a Clarksdale, Mississippi, street gang known as the "Mafia Insane Vice Lords." Robinson plead guilty...

...gang, and Butler was a member of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords street gang. Further, Brown stated that when he arrived at the intersection of Maypole and LaCrosse on May 3, 2006, Butler was on the...