Edward Leonard Christian, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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• holding that the trial court “could infer appellant’s consciousness of guilt” as it related to his possession of crack cocaine in his pocket from the false identification he had provided to police
• finding sufficient evidence of drug possession where the defendant gave a false name
• finding sufficient evidence of knowledge of the nature and character of crack cocaine where the appellant found the drug on the ground and kept it in his pants pocket because he thought he could sell it
• finding defendant was aware of the presence of the contraband where he told law enforcement he “found the crack cocaine on the ground” and admitted that he picked it up because “he ‘thought it was drugs’ and that he ‘thought he might be able to get four or five dollars for it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).