Meme v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the State presented sufficient evidence to withstand a motion for judgment of acquittal where an -6- officer saw the defendant in the jointly occupied vehicle reaching to the place where the contraband was later found
• finding possession when the combination of the circumstantial evidence, including the defendant’s “ready reach,” nervous behavior, and statements were inconsistent with defendant’s hypothesis of innocence
• finding sufficient evidence of constructive possession in a jointly occupied vehicle when the defendant, in addition to exhibit ing nervous behavior and rummaging in an area where narcotics were found, made incriminating statements
• finding “ready reach” where the defendant was driving a car without any physical restraints and was seen by the officer reaching down to the area where the contraband was eventually found and no one else in the vehicle had moved

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).