Prosecutors say that shows that Duncan fits the legal definition of a gang member who "willfully promotes, furthers, or assists in any felonious criminal conduct by members of that gang".
Under an untested law, an "active participant" in a "criminal street gang" who "willfully promotes, furthers, assists, or benefits from" any felony committed by fellow gang members can be charged with "conspiracy to commit that felony".
Duncan was being prosecuted under California's Street Terrorism and Prevention Act, or STEP Act, which deems it illegal to "willfully promote" or "benefit" from criminal gang activity.
An environment must be created and willfully promoted from college campuses up through Washington that allows new thoughts to be expressed and talking points to be disposed.
Eric Brazau, who was sentenced to nine months in jail in 2014 for willfully promoted hatred against Muslims and criminally harassing a Muslim man and his family, told VICE he didn't want to talk about the suspect in the shooting, Alexandre Bissonnette.
No, this holiday season, we must ask why some large supermarkets continue to willfully promote systems, like the Mexican produce industry, that fail to respect workers rights, while continuing to resist systems that treat workers as they should be treated, like human beings.
Too often U.S. officials willfully undermine their own capacity to promote essential human rights progress.
Pollan said in a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein (another DBOC supporter with no known ties to the Koch brothers), with a copy to Secretary Salazar, that "the Park Service has willfully twisted both history and science to promote a fantasy of wilderness".
I'm disappointed that its leaders willfully misinterpret the principle of free speech and promote baseless attacks on the free press, seemingly to prop up a convenient source of profit.
It will be hard to convince the average Afghan that Karzai is a national hero when he invited the foreign military presence into their country, actively promoted its growth and stay, and has willfully courted foreign aid, which has made the country so dependent on the good will of others in order to function.
Working conditions in Gaza are surely hard enough without the drumbeat of allegations and personal intimations, from the conservative media to the Israel lobby to pundits like David Frum, promoting the idea that Western photographers are somehow willfully choosing not to photograph Hamas fighters, concentrating instead on churning out photo after photo of wounded and dead Palestinians.
