P. v. Pierson CA4/3
Appellants Andre Ricardo Pierson and Dwight Ladale Stephen stand convicted of multiple counts of robbery. On appeal, they do not contest the sufficiency of the evidence to support their convictions, nor do they dispute they were members of a criminal street gang when they committed their crimes. Instead, they maintain there is insufficient evidence to support the jury’s finding they committed them for the benefit of or in association with their gang. They also contend the trial court erred in denying their motion to bifurcate the gang allegations, and their attorneys were ineffective for failing to object to the prosecutor’s description of those allegations in closing argument. Finding appellants’ arguments unpersuasive, we affirm the judgments against them.
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