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Court allows gang-affiliation evidence based on Tarrant County booking form and TxGang entry
Summary
Judge Stephanie Boyd allowed a Bexar County DA investigator to testify that the defendant had self-identified as a member of the Long Beach Insane Crips in a prior Tarrant County booking; defense objections on hearsay, confrontation and relevance were overruled.
The 187th District Court allowed the state’s gang expert to testify that records and photos from a Tarrant County booking indicated the defendant had self-identified as a member of the Long Beach Insane Crips.
Sergeant Anthony Rodriguez, a criminal investigator with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office who serves as a gang liaison and administrator for local gang documentation, testified he reviewed Tarrant County records and a “gang acknowledgment” form (offered as state exhibit P3). Rodriguez said the defendant had been documented in the TxGang system and that Tarrant County records validated that earlier entry. According to Rodriguez’s testimony, the booking form included a self-admitted affiliation, a moniker (“Tayk 47”), photographs and hand signs; Rodriguez testified, “He…
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