People v. Guy

How courts have described this case

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

• holding evidence was sufficient to show defendant had constructive possession of drugs in apartment even though his wife also lived there and was the sole signatory on the renewal lease
• rejecting a Sixth Amendment challenge to the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a guidelines sentence
• “Constructive possession can be established by either direct or cir- cumstantial evidence and by inferences arising from the surround- ing circumstances.”
• internal quotation marks omitted, citation omit- ted, and alteration adopted
• “[U]nder an advisory Guidelines scheme, courts can continue to consider rele- vant acquitted conduct so long as the facts underlying the conduct are proved by a preponderance of the evidence and the sentence imposed does not exceed the maximum sentence authorized by the jury verdict.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).