People v. Khalil Jamandre Sanders

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• including among circumstantial evidence that weighed in favor of finding that substance was cocaine the fact that “canine used in the search made a positive hit, which directly led the officers to the cocaine”
• error harmless beyond a reasonable doubt where, among other evidence, defendant had signed statement admitting substance was cocaine
• “A substance can be identified as a controlled drug . . . through the testimony of experienced police officers”
• wherein the defendant’s second statement was motivated by the defendant’s desire to exonerate his cousin
• defendant signed a statement that the substance was cocaine, an experienced officer weighed the cocaine and testified to its nature, and a police dog made a positive identification
• passage of two hours and involvement of different police personnel broke sequence of events

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).