California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Castro, A138968 (Cal. App. 2016):
prosecution need not prove those offenses were themselves gang-related. (See People v. Gardeley, supra, 14 Cal.4th at pp. 621-622 [predicate offenses used to establish "pattern of criminal gang activity" need not themselves be gang-related].)
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