Bethancourt-Rosales v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[L]ack of surprise or concern during a temporary detention and investigation can suggest knowledge of the presence of contraband.”
• an implausible story advanced by a defendant can provide circumstantial evidence indicating guilty knowledge
• jury was free to infer guilty knowledge from implausibility of appellant’s story that she had been in Houston for last two weeks when receipt showed she had made repairs to vehicle in Ohio five days prior to being stopped by police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).