Cordon v. Com.

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• holding that appellant’s -7- denial, “assuming . . . [it] gave rise to an inference that he was lying to conceal guilt,” could not, when combined with the other evidence in the record, make up for that evidence’s paucity
• reversing conviction for cocaine possession where “the circumstantial evidence . . . may be sufficient to raise a suspicion of guilt, [but] cannot support a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt”
• reversing a conviction of constructive possession of cocaine when the evidence did not sufficiently link the appellant to the drug despite the trial court’s conclusion that appellant lied to conceal his guilt
• Personal effects found in the room where drugs were located is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Cordon was aware of the presence of the drugs found in a sealed cooler or that he had dominion and control.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).