...) 37 Cal.4th 453, 466.) At around midnight on June 9, 2006, Francisco Ruiz was leaving a party in a neighborhood claimed by the Westside Wilmas gang, when a car pulled up...Westside Wilmas gang, but he did not know 29-year-old Ruiz, who belonged to the same gang. Espinoza confessed to shooting, but claimed self-defense and to have believed Ruiz had been challenging the...driver of the car. According to expert testimony, even though Ruiz had shot a senior and fellow gang member, the shooting would enhance the reputation of the Westside Wilmas gang, because Ruiz was...

..., California, drinking and listening to music. Ernesto Romero (Romero), a member of the Westside Wilmas gang, approached them after Romero's god brother told Romero that he had been choked earlier that...belongings had been stolen. Romero and others left the scene in the Infinity. Romero went to the home of his friend and fellow Westside Wilmas gang member Alfred McCullin (the...victim). They learned that appellant, who was a higher ranking member of the Westside Wilmas gang, was looking for whoever beat up his brother and...

...40-caliber shell casings, all fired from the same gun. The police noticed some fresh black graffiti on the wall of the apartment building. The graffiti read "Westside Wilmas X13..." with the "es" in Westside crossed out. Rodriguez had black paint on his finger and on the web of his hand. A blue bandana was near Rodriguez's body. Blue is associated with the Westside Wilmas gang... Los Angeles Police Officer Mark Maldonado testified as a gang expert. He said the Westside and Eastside Wilmas gangs were originally a single gang in Wilmington. In the 1980s they...

...Street in Wilmington. Anderson and Jalomo were members of a gang, the Westside Wilmas. They decided to walk to Anderson's girlfriend's house to smoke marijuana. Appellant and... Nationals baseball cap with a "W" on it, which was a symbol of the Westside Wilmas gang. Appellant pointed a gun at Anderson and asked, "Where are you guys from?" Anderson und...other. Anderson knew appellant as "Beef" and said, "Hey, Beef, it's me," but appellant did not reply. Jalomo replied, "Westside Wilmas, Wilhall...

.... The only issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in imposing the gang enhancement. We conclude that the court’s finding that the Westside Wilmas is a “criminal street gang” within the meaning...during the relevant time period.”          McMahon testified as follows. Martinez was an active member of the Westside Wilmas at the time...committed the crimes for the benefit of a criminal street gang. The parties stipulated that Detective Walter McMahon “is an expert and qualified as an expert in the area of the Westside Wilma gang...

...the sweatshirt pulled up meaning he was going to shoot) and Garcia, and asked where they were from. The one Gauge asked said he was from Westside Wilmas, but Cisco was in the other one’s face. That...Maldonado) testified there were three major gangs in Wilmington: Westside Wilmas, Eastside Wilmas and Eastside Pain Bloods. The two Wilmas gangs were rivals. He testified regarding the various crimes...comprising the Westside Wilmas’ primary activities and testified to convictions for attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon committed by Westside Wilmas gang members. He identified Espinoza (whose...

...odor that it had just been fired. A gang expert testified about the Westside Wilmas gang, its rival gang Rancho San Pedro, and that Ayala and Aguilera were Westside Wilmas gang...members. Based on a hypothetical tracking the facts of this case, the expert opined that the crime was committed for the benefit of or in association with the Westside Wilmas gang and with the specific...

...and the Mexican Mafia. He has a tattoo of a black hand, signifying his Mexican Mafia membership, and is known by the moniker "Cherilo." Daniel is a member of the Westside Wilmas gang...in territory claimed by the Westside Wilmas gang. Michelle Tamble was the manager of the Wilmington Inn. The victim, Johnny Carbajal, lived at the Wilmington Inn with Melissa Garcia...and their two children. Johnny was a member of the Westside Wilmas and had "W.S." tattooed on his left arm. Johnny's mother, Stella Carbajal, and her husband, John Beck, also...

...on January 30, 2012, former Westside Wilmas gang member Ivan Zamora was walking in the city of Wilmington, California when four males in a white car pulled up to his location. He recognized them as...Westside Wilmas gang 1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code. The Legislature renumbered section 1170.95 as section... 3 Los Angeles Police Department Officer Robert Hargrove, a gang expert, confirmed that defendants were Westside Wilmas gang members and that the phrase "Fuck the chee...

...Wilmas and the Westside Wilmas, and he testified it was not hard to tell if someone belonged to one of these gangs. That night, Quijada noticed a group of six or seven gang members in the backyard.... Luis Amezcua testified he grew up in Wilmington and was familiar with the area's gangs, including the Eastside Wilmas and the Westside Wilmas. He knew people who were gang members and he could tell.... The gang expert, Mark Maldonado of the Los Angeles Police Department, testified the Eastside Wilmas were a large gang, with about 550 members, consisting of five different cliques or...

...on January 30, 2012, former Westside Wilmas gang member Ivan Zamora was walking in the city of Wilmington, California when four males in a white car pulled up to his location. He recognized them as...Westside Wilmas gang 1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code. The Legislature renumbered section 1170.95 as section... 3 Los Angeles Police Department Officer Robert Hargrove, a gang expert, confirmed that defendants were Westside Wilmas gang members and that the phrase "Fuck the chee...

...defendant as the person who shot Quezada. He testified that defendant and Quezada were arguing about which was the first Westside Wilmas clique. Krueger was a couple of feet away from them and heard a...that, after the shooting, he received a phone call from someone who identified himself as a member of the Westside Wilmas named "210." The caller said that he saw defendant shoot Quezada after the two... A. THE MURDER TRIAL On December 31, 2012, David Diaz had a party at his house in Wilmington, California. Diaz and a number of his guests were members of a gang called Westside...

...claimed by the Westside Wilmas street gang, near the intersection of Lagoon Avenue and Anaheim Street in Wilmington, close to a 99 Cent Only Store. Irma Lopez lived with her husband and five of her six....          The Lopez residence was a “safe haven” for Westside Wilmas members, who regularly used it “to hide or to prevent being...initials, “WSW, ” which was indicative of the Westside Wilmas. The officers also recovered a newspaper article reporting an incident on Lagoon related to the underlying killing...

... The charges in this case stem from two incidents, just days apart. In the first incident, defendant—a member of the Westside Wilmas street gang—approached a stranger at a church...

.... McMillian was African–American and was in an area controlled by a Hispanic street gang, the “Westside Wilmas.” Police...

.... Defendant, a member of the Westside Wilmas (WSW) gang, was present. He displayed a gun in his belt and asked Fisher to speak to Mona about some missing antique bottles. Fisher spoke to Mona, denied...Topo [defendant's nickname], Westside Wilmas. I'm responsible for everything." He told Degroat that he killed Rodriquez because he was "no...themselves in graffiti and tattoos using common symbols ("WSW," "WS Wilmas," and others), as well as by hand signs (forming a "W"). WSW territory included the scene of the Rodriguez murder. According to...

...two rival gangs with which Inocencio was alleged to be associated. The Westside Wilmas claimed the territory to the west of the boulevard, and the Eastside Wilmas claimed the territory to the east...stated that he was a member of the Westside Wilmas, not the Eastside Wilmas as Garcia wrote. Another officer, Detective Robert Hargrove, testified that he had stopped Inocencio several times and...arrested him more than once. Hargrove believed Inocencio was an associate of the Westside Wilmas gang, and in November 2017 filled out an FI card stating as much. Hargrove also wrote that Inocencio's...

...          Appellant, a member of the Westside Wilmas gang (WW), was convicted of the September 18, 2006 murder of Samuel Saucedo Martinez, a member of the rival...Eastside Wilmas gang (EW). When the shooting occurred, appellant was in the company of another WW member, his friend Hector Zamora. Originally charged along with appellant, Zamora pled guilty to...