Jones v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• noting absence of evidence to prove passenger accused of possessing cocaine saw small pieces of cocaine on car’s console or that he recognized items as cocaine
• occupant of automobile not presumed to have awareness of presence and character of small pieces of cocaine on tray between occupant and driver
• small pieces of cocaine in plain view in accessory tray on vehicle console not sufficient to establish possession by passenger
• reaching the same conclusion based on similar facts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kelly v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-08-05· cited 712×
• Hancock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-12-29· cited 45×
• Myers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-05-25· cited 38×
• Scruggs v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-09-20· cited 28×
• Coward v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-08-22· cited 24×
• Larocca v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-09-29· cited 17×
• Robert Weldon Dayvon Yerling, s/k/a Robert Weldon Dayvon Yearling v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2020-02-18

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ritter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-04-27· cited 142×
• Hairston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-10-06· cited 31×
• The PEOPLE v. Pigrenet
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-11-30· cited 27×