Is there any case law where evidence of criminal gang membership was sufficient to support the testimony of witnesses who identified defendants as participants in the crimes?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from The People v. Collins, F058932, No. BF124567B (Cal. App. 2011):

involved in the commission of the crimes in this case fortified the testimony of the persons who identified defendants as participants in the murders. Thus, evidence of defendants' gang membership tended 'logically, naturally, and by reasonable inference' to establish their identities as perpetrators of those offenses"], disapproved on another point in People v. Combs (2004) 34 Cal.4th 821, 860; see People v. Plasencia (1985) 168 Cal.App.3d 546, 553.)

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