Scruggs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that plastic baggies found in defendant’s vehicle “similar” to plastic baggies containing cocaine found on the ground “are fungible and readily available to anyone”
• noting that plastic baggies found in defendant's vehicle \similar\ to plastic baggies containing cocaine found on the ground \are fungible and readily available to anyone\
• reversing denial of judgment of acquittal for possession of cocaine where evidence was wholly circumstantial and the State could not present sufficient evidence to rebut the inference that the defendant did not have actual or constructive possession of cocaine
• “Because appellant did not have actual, physical possession of the cocaine, the state was required to prove that he was in constructive possession of it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mitchell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-05-30· cited 16×
• King v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-17· cited 10×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-01-20· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-12-12· cited 7×
• Gibson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-11-06· cited 5×
• J.M. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-05· cited 5×
• JM v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-05

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Law
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 545×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-03-03· cited 180×
• Dupree v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-07· cited 70×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-29· cited 57×
• Agee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-04-06· cited 29×
• Jean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-06-15· cited 20×
• Earle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 19×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-10-12· cited 14×
• Sinkfield v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-10-16· cited 11×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-01-09· cited 10×
• Woods v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-11· cited 10×
• E.H.A. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-07-05· cited 10×
• McGowan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-05· cited 8×
• Ball v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-26· cited 7×
• Hyler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-19· cited 5×
• Babb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-26· cited 5×