State v. Garcia

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that there was sufficient evidence of constructive possession to survive an MJOA where drugs were found hidden in an apartment where defendant was staying and he admitted to having handled them
• constructive possession found where drugs found hidden in apartment where the defendant was staying and the defendant admitted to handling the bag of drugs
• “Possession of quantities of controlled substances not consistent with personal use, and of items associated with drug trafficking, is evidence of a ‘substantial step’ toward transferring controlled substances.”
• “The cocaine was found hidden in the kitchen of the apartment where defendant was staying, and he admitted that he had handled it. A reasonable fact finder could infer from that evidence that defendant knowingly exercised some right of control over the cocaine.” (Emphasis added.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1999-06-02· cited 16×
• State v. Fry
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2003-11-26· cited 12×
• State v. Sosa-Vasquez
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1999-02-17· cited 9×
• State v. Bauer
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1994-06-22· cited 6×
• State v. Stradley
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2013-08-14· cited 3×
• Welsh v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2017-03-15· cited 3×
• State v. Anner
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2024-10-09

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. King
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1989-01-31· cited 170×
• State v. Boyd
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1988-07-06· cited 71×
• State v. Oare
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1968-04-17· cited 61×
• State v. Coria
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1979-04-02· cited 30×
• State v. Aguilar
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1989-05-10· cited 16×
• State v. Fulmer
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1991-01-23· cited 12×