Glass v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding sufficient evidence of possession where defendant had rented a hotel room, kept personal belongings in the room, was walking to the room where a “great quantity” of drugs were “in open view,” and then tried to turn around and walk away when he saw police
• probable cause established by statement of concerned citizen despite that the affidavit lacked specific facts demonstrating the individual’s veracity
• hotel housekeeping staff considered “concerned citizen informant” and has “‘preferred status’ insofar as testing the credibility of the informant’s information”
• constructive possession shown when defendant had key to hotel room, acted suspiciously upon seeing police, and claimed clothing and video game system found in room with large quantity of drugs in open view
• “A person who, though not in actual possession, knowingly has both the power and the intention at a given time to exercise dominion or control over a thing is then in constructive possession of it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Manzione v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-11-16· cited 16×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-12-29· cited 16×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-01-25· cited 7×
• Johnson v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-08-09· cited 5×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09· cited 4×
• The STATE v. KAULBACH Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-04-10· cited 2×
• Shannon Lamont McMurray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-06-17
• Eric Michael Sutton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-01-25
• Kayla Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09
• Michael Eric Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-12

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• State v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-23· cited 106×
• Whitten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-05-28· cited 25×
• State v. Sanders
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-07-14· cited 12×
• Chambliss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-10· cited 6×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-04-02· cited 6×
• Truitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-03· cited 5×