Judge Delays Hearing on Gang Injunction
A Superior Court judge on Thursday delayed a hearing on a preliminary injunction that would ban members of the Venice Shoreline Crips from congregating in Venice’s Oakwood district.
Judge David Perez granted attorneys James Simmons and Rochelle Woodard, who represent 24 of the 38 men named in the proposed injunction, until July 8 to file their arguments. The hearing on issuing the preliminary injunction was continued to July 16 so the remaining 14 defendants could arrange for legal representation.
The injunction, sought by Deputy City Atty. Brooke White and Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael Juarez, would prohibit gang members from contacting one another in the area bordered by Pacific and Rose avenues and Lincoln and Venice boulevards. It also would set a 10 p.m. curfew in the area for individual gang members and prohibit them from carrying weapons and ammunition, selling drugs, threatening community activists, vandalizing property or trespassing.
Simmons argued that the injunction would violate the gang members’ constitutional rights.
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