People v. Morales

Jury convicted Defendant of murder and robbery after he and co-Defendants beat to death a factory employee in parking lot. Court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of attack by some of the Defendants in same parking lot three weeks earlier, as intrinsic evidence relevant to Defendant's involvement in murder in question. Court within its discretion in admitting evidence, for purposes of strengthening eyewitness identification of Defendant, that Defendants were members of street gang, as jury was instructed on limited purpose of evidence. Court's comment to a juror who expressed bias against gangs, that he might send her to Daley Center for civil trial that would last a month, was not plain error. (LAMPKIN and PALMER, concurring.)