Langston v. Commonwealth

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• holding that the defendant's actions, standing and walking on property known to be abandoned with \no trespassing\ signs, gave the officers probable cause to believe that defendant was trespassing
• holding that the evidence sufficiently proved that the defendant possessed the bag of cocaine found on the floor of a police van after the defendant had been the only person transported in the van
• holding that encounter not consensual where three uniformed police officers - 8 - on bicycle patrol pursued defendant, who was on foot, asking repetitive and redundant questions until he stopped to talk with them, at which time he was surrounded by the officers
• affirming conviction of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and noting “defendant told police and the trial court he did not use drugs”
• noting “defendant told police and the trial court he did not use drugs”
• \The trial court could have inferred this money was the fruit of several drug transactions.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).