The California Supreme Court on Thursday threw out the conspiracy-to-murder conviction of a gang member who used social media to applaud the killing of rivals during a San Diego gang war.
the conspiracy-to-murder conviction of a gang member who used social media to applaud the killing of rivals during a San Diego gang war.
"Being a cheerleader" isn’t enough to show that Nicholas Hoskins conspired in the murders, the court said in an unusual and unanimousThe court overturned Hoskins’ sentence of 25 years to life and sent the case back to the appellate court that had upheld his conviction. The case stemmed from a war between gangs affiliated with the Crips and the Bloods in the San Diego area. The war was declared after a member of Hoskins’ Bloods-connected gang was killed in 2011.
Prosecutors accused him of taking part in a "two-year-long agreement among at least 20 gang members to kill members of rival gangs, without agreement as to any specific times, persons, or places where killing would take place," according to the Supreme Court ruling. The prosecution cited evidence of his membership in a violent gang, his access to guns and his social media posts celebrating attacks on rival gang members.
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