...methamphetamine to the Nuestra Familia criminal street gang (Nuestra Familia). He received methamphetamine from his suppliers, stored it on his property, and sold it to the commanders of Nuestra Familia street...2008 complaint included no known members of Nuestra Familia, and the complaint charged no gang-related offenses or enhancements. After defendant pleaded no contest to conspiracy and possession...for active participation in Nuestra Familia. The indictment once again charged defendant with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, but this time for the benefit of Nuestra Familia. Defendant...

...David Hernandez, were members of the Nuestra Familia, an organized gang. Hernandez described the Nuestra Familia as a rigid, militaristic.... On October 9, 1977, Hernandez was released from state prison and directed by the prison's Nuestra Familia lieutenant to make contact with certain individuals in Bakersfield. Hernandez...was then put in contact with other individuals and made a trip to Fresno on October 13. Hernandez met with several Nuestra Familia members...

..., including the structure of the Norteno criminal street gang and how it originated from the Nuestra Familia prison gang. According to Agent Marquez, around 1955 Hispanic prison inmates in California...known as Nuestra Familia. The Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia prison gangs essentially divided the State in half; territory in the northern part of the state fell under the authority of the Nuestra...Familia prison gang, and territory in the southern part of the state was controlled by the Mexican Mafia. The Nuestra Familia prison gang is the parent organization over all Norteno gang members...

...requirements, practices, rules, hierarchy, graffiti, slang, code, signing and colors of Nuestra Familia prison gang. Mr. Mason will offer his opinion about how certain acts of violence affect the...standing of the Nuestra Familia as a whole. He will also offer his opinion about how certain acts of violence (including those involved in this case), may impact the standing of an individual member...within the Nuestra Familia with respect to other gangs (including Norteños, Northerners and/or rivals...

.... THE EVIDENCE In 1977 appellant was a lieutenant in the Nuestra Familia, a prison gang which was originally organized to provide security to...Mexican-American prisoners but which expanded into various forms of criminal activity outside prison. Appellant's affiliation with Nuestra Familia and high rank in that.... Beltran gave the following testimony about Nuestra Familia. It is organized along military lines and its soldiers are promoted to...

...testified that Armand Valle was a member of North Side Watsonville and, later, of Nuestra Familia. Pictures of Valle with defendant were shown at trial. E.T. told a Santa...new wife. Defendant tried, unsuccessfully, to bribe the arresting officers. F. Gang Evidence 1. Nuestra Familia, Nuestra...Raza, and Norteños Michael Walker, an expert on Norteños, Nuestra Raza, and Nuestra Familia, opined that Nuestra Familia started as a Hispanic prison gang in the early...

...investigating and monitoring the Nuestra Familia," including his duties (i) as a Bureau of Prisons officer between 1998 and 2000, (ii) at USP Pollock from roughly 2004 through 2008, and (iii) as a...Nuestra Familia members between 2010 and the date of Larez's arrest in this case. (See id.) He has "conducted hundreds of interviews" with both "enemies of Nuestra Familia" and...members of Nuestra Familia, seen members' tattoos, and searched members' prison cells. (See id.) In addition, Garrow links some proffered opinions to these interviews and the Nuestra...

...March 22, 1977, under orders from the Nuestra Familia, a para-military street gang, Gutierrez and Frank Reyes, a fellow gang member and Gutierrez's codefendant at trial, executed Flavio Garza, a...Familia member who had been placed on the gang's "hit list." Garza had apparently been marked for execution because he had refused to kill someone else. Garza's execution was witnessed...official familiar with the Familia to invoke the official information evidentiary privilege and in refusing to make certain adverse findings on the issue of duress. On February 20, 1980, the California...

...investigation into a conspiracy by the Nuestra Familia gang to sell methamphetamine, defendant Felipe Yanez was convicted after two jury trials of conspiracy to sell methamphetamine...Nuestra Familia gang. As summarized in our recitation of facts below, evidence was introduced during both of Yanez's trials that indicated that he was an associate of the gang. We have disposed...sell methamphetamine for the benefit of the Nuestra Familia gang. Yanez was charged with active participation in a criminal street gang (§ 186.22, subd. (a); count 1) and conspiracy to sell...

...gang investigation conferences. At the hearing, Menke testified about the connection among the Nuestra Familia prison gang, the Norteños, and Varrio South Park (the RICO enterprise...charged in our case). He stated that the Norteños operate under the umbrella of Nuestra Familia. There are many smaller Norteño cliques throughout the country, including VSP in Santa Rosa. VSP members...pay taxes up the chain to other Norteños that make their way to the top of Nuestra Familia in the prison system. Menke further testified about how members are initiated into the gang, often by being...

...Familia gangs, in a case in which Magdaleno, while incarcerated, orchestrated and directly participated in violent assaults against gang members who had violated the rules of Nuestra Familia, a...members who had violated the rules of Nuestra Familia, a prison gang to which Norteno members pledge loyalty. He pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced...member of the Norteno or Nuestra Familia gangs. On appeal, Magdaleno argues that this condition violates his fundamental right to familial association because it does not exclude his...

.... Defendant is an admitted member of Nuestra Familia. Nuestra Familia is a gang that formed in prison. Membership in Nuestra Familia is a lifetime commitment, and members are expected to put...Familia include murder, assault with deadly weapons, sales of controlled substances, and transferring or selling firearms to convicted felons. Prison officials had placed Nuestra.... This subgroup is subservient to Nuestra Familia. A lower level gang member, or other person on the street who is willing to do the bidding of Nuestra Familia, was formerly known as a Norteño and is now...

...leaders, members, or associates of the Nuestra Familia gang. My employment as an AUSA ended July 3, 2011, immediately before my appointment as a magistrate judge. One case I...." I understand that one or more of the defendants in that case were alleged to be leaders, members, or associates of the Nuestra Familia gang, although they were not charged as gang members in.... No. 58 ¶ 17. The defendants are alleged to be associates, members, and leaders of Nuestra Familia and/or Nuestra Familia's Nuestra Raza/Northern Structure and/or Norteno affiliates...

...” with the Nuestra Familia, or NF, prison gang. Finally, Sample described various other aspects of Norteño and Sureño gang culture generally, including the appearance of gang graffiti and gang signs as...would be various Norteño subset gangs that share a cut of drug sale proceeds with the same members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang. More indirect evidence may also show that distinct gang subsets...gangs” are “associate[d]” with the Nuestra Familia prison gang. While such evidence might permit the inference that the various alleged gang subsets share a common origin, it does not indicate whether...

...completed mental health therapy. However, it appears that defendant remains married and in contact with her husband who is a “general” of the Nuestra Familia drug gang and who is currently imprisoned by the...Bureau of Prisons, and defendant was imprisoned based on her involvement with Nuestra Familia drug trafficking. Further, defendant has had a recent positive drug test, although she claims that the test...

...authority expert within the Bureau of Prisons who opines that the Nuestra Familia and Norteno gang organization is attempting to form a presence at these locations. The Defendant does not agree or disagree...Bureau of Prisons who opines that the Nuestra Familia and Norteno gang organization is attempting to form a presence at these locations. The Defendant does not agree or disagree with the opinion of the...of Prisons who opines that the Nuestra Familia and Norteno gang organization is attempting to form a presence at these locations. The Defendant does not agree or disagree with the opinion of the...

...explained below. The government explains the probative value as demonstrating the existence and purpose of Nuestra Familia and as proof of Counts One through Three by showing...one alleged Nuestra Familia member (Skip Villanueva) kill another alleged Nuestra Familia member (Pete Gutierrez) for violating Nuestra Familia rules and to advance within the...with [A. Cervantes's] ascendency to the role of sole overseer of the Nuestra Familia." (Id. at 6.) The fact of the alleged stabbing is not probative of any...