Commonwealth v. Tirado, A.

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• probability that one of three defendants fired handgun insufficient to implicate any specific defendant or convict others of joint and constructive possession
• no direct evidence of possession, “such as by observation, fingerprints, or paraffin tests”
• no direct evidence of firearm possession, “such as by observation, fingerprints, or paraffin tests”
• insufficient evidence to establish that defendants were in possession of firearm found under couch they were sitting on where gun was not in plain view but hidden, and there was no indication gun had been recently fired and no suspicious movements
• \direct evidence\ of actual possession includes eyewitness observation

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