Folk Nation

Twenty-year-old Wendell Washington (“the victim”) arrived home between 10:30 and 10:45 p.m. on the night of May 5, 2013. He shared the home with his girlfriend, Harley Stokes, and his mother, Diana Washington, both of whom were inside the house when he arrived. He was a roofer by trade but also sold marijuana and “pills.”…

The Crips were a street gang that started in the 1970s in LA. The Crips and the Bloods are the main gangs that started somewhere other than New York and in Chicago. They started on the west coast in LA. They have multiple subsets. There are literally hundreds of them. If you want a –…

This case arose from events on May 22, 1994, that ultimately led to the death of Cleveland Jackson. Defendant shot and killed Jackson, a 16-year-old youth, after a gang altercation in a party store parking lot. The altercation involved gang rivalry between the Latin Counts, who considered the parking lot their “territory,” and a rival…