Kier v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there was insufficient circumstantial evidence of possession and noting “there was no evidence that [defendant] was uncooperative, attempted to flee police, behaved erratically, or appeared to be under the influence of drugs”
• in a constructive possession case the State needed to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant “knowingly had both the power and intention at a given time to exercise control over the [drug.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).