Supreme Court of Connecticut· 7/2/1974
State v. Avila
Citations
- 166 Conn. 569
- 353 A.2d 776
- 1974 Conn. LEXIS 929
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- concluding that conduct that defendant must be shown to have intended for possession of heroin with intent to sell or dispense quite broad
- upholding as admissible state toxicologist’s testimony that quantity and purity of seized heroin, if diluted and packaged, was sufficient to supply 22,400 bags of heroin appropriate for street-level distribution
- element of intent to sell narcotic in prosecution for possession of narcotic with intent to sell may be proved by circumstantial evidence
- ‘‘[i]t may reasonably be inferred that an armed possessor of drugs has something more in mind than mere personal use’’ (internal quotation marks omit- ted)
- gun found with narcotics relevant to issue of intent to sell
- defendant possessed 112 grams of 85 percent pure cocaine
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Judges: House, Shapiko, Loiselle, MacDonald, Bogdanski
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51 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- State v. KurvinSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-03-30· cited 191×
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-08-05· cited 123×
- State v. VilalastraSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-04-05· cited 110×
- State v. ReedSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1978-02-28· cited 109×
- State v. BerrySupreme Court of New Jersey· 1995-05-04· cited 105×
- State v. DelossantosSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-05-23· cited 101×
- State v. CooperSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-08-19· cited 95×
- State v. GabrielSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-03-13· cited 95×
- State v. BunkleySupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-03-24· cited 94×
- State v. FalconeSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-08-09· cited 81×
- State v. RoySupreme Court of Connecticut· 1977-04-26· cited 80×
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-08-07· cited 79×
- State v. WoodSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-06-28· cited 72×
- State v. HillSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-12-09· cited 67×
- State v. BattleSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-03-30· cited 63×
- State v. RyersonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-09-02· cited 60×
- State v. ClemonsSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-04-29· cited 39×
- State v. ParentConnecticut Appellate Court· 1986-08-12· cited 34×
- State v. CobbSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-04-01· cited 32×
- State v. EstepSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-04-13· cited 30×
Cites
31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Leary v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1969-05-19· cited 1,672×
- Turner v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 1,166×
- State v. WatsonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1973-12-19· cited 118×
- Stoner v. StonerSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1972-07-05· cited 116×
- State v. SulSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1958-12-24· cited 103×
- State v. ReedSupreme Court of New Jersey· 1961-05-08· cited 93×
- State v. VarsSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1966-11-29· cited 91×
- State v. GraytonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1972-05-11· cited 88×
- Taylor v. Town of MonroeSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1875-10-15· cited 87×
- State v. TropianoSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1969-09-24· cited 77×
- Farlow v. Andrews CorporationSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1966-11-10· cited 73×
- United States v. Robert Gordon MatherFifth Circuit· 1972-12-18· cited 60×
- State v. BentonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1971-06-25· cited 55×
- Harris v. TexasSupreme Court· 1971-01-15· cited 55×
- State v. RaffoneSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1971-04-20· cited 50×
- State v. AlterioSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1966-06-08· cited 48×
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1969-01-08· cited 43×
- State v. HawkinsSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1972-03-22· cited 41×
- State v. HarrisSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1970-06-23· cited 39×
- Thomas v. GanezerSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1951-01-16· cited 39×
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