State v. Fries

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where the defendant transported marijuana plants at the direction of a friend, he \possessed\ them for purposes of ORS 475.840(3)
• holding that where the defendant transported marijuana plants at the direction of a friend, he “possessed” them for purposes of ORS 475.840(3)
• holding that the legislature, in enacting ORS 161.015(9), chose a narrower definition of “possession”— physical control—than it used in the statute at issue in Gordineer, ORS 471.430 (1961)
• observing that only momentary or fleeting contacts may be insufficient as a matter of law to establish control
• observing that only momentary or fleeting contacts may be insufficient as a matter of law to establish control
• using context to determine which of multiple definitions is the one that the legislature intended

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).