Lassaint v. State

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• proving mere proximity to contraband is not legally sufficient to prove possession
• declining to find, in the course of a legal sufficiency review, that the accused — a passenger in a vehicle stopped by law enforcement — demonstrated a consciousness of guilt through his nervousness, because the evidence established that the accused was also cooperative
• declining to find, in the course of a legal sufficiency review, that the accused--a passenger in a vehicle stopped by law enforcement--demonstrated a consciousness of guilt through his nervousness, because the evidence established that the accused was also cooperative
• a party must have acted with the intent to promote or assist the offense by soliciting, encouraging, directing, aiding, or attempting to aid the other person who has possession
• to establish criminal liability as a party, defendant must have acted with the intent to promote or assist the offense by soliciting, encouraging, directing, aiding, or attempting to aid the other person who had possession
• noting defendant “was not armed, nor were any weapons recovered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).