State v. Benneig

How courts have described this case

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• concluding evidence sufficient to show defendant constructively possessed marijuana where he had dominion and control over marijuana
• bits of circumstantial evidence of marijuana use by defendant, considered together, serve as evidence that she had power and intent to control marijuana found in her home
• where defense counsel sought to argue witness’s exercise of privilege against self-incrimination raised an inference of guilt, trial court properly excluded comment because silence was simply not relevant evidence
• constructive possession is when “[a] person who, although not in actual possession, knowingly has both the power and the intention. . . at a given time to exercise dominion or control over a thing”
• defining possession as \dominion or control\ over contraband item

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).