Torres v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding gang membership admissible because “it did not substitute for evidence of actual participation in the drug distribution conspiracy”
• allowing evidence of gang membership to clarify connections between defendants in drug distribution conspiracy case
• affirming the admission of expert testimony to the effect that a defendant's possession of scales during the purchase of thirty grams of cocaine was consistent with drug trafficking rather than personal consumption
• gang association admissible to prove conspiracy existed