State v. Gonsalves

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that possession for purposes of misconduct involving weapons can be actual or constructive possession
• “[U]nder a theory of constructive possession, two or more persons may jointly possess a prohibited object; possession need not be ‘exclusive, immediate and personal.”
• “Actual possession means a defendant knowingly exercised direct physical control over an object.”
• two people may have simultaneous constructive possession of the same prohibited object
• “Constructive possession may be proven by direct or circumstantial evidence.”
• \Possession may be actual or constructive.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• State of Arizona v. Rock Kelly Ingram
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-02-11· cited 14×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. West
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2011-05-12· cited 376×
• United States v. Perez
  Eleventh Circuit· 2011-10-26· cited 158×
• State v. Stuard
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-11-18· cited 121×
• State v. Cox
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2007-12-21· cited 102×
• State v. Girdler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-12-21· cited 102×
• State v. Chabolla-Hinojosa
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1998-09-03· cited 77×
• United States v. McCraney
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-07-22· cited 33×
• State v. Bustamante
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2012-03-29· cited 31×
• State v. Carroll
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1974-10-10· cited 27×
• State v. Villalobos Alvarez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1987-09-22· cited 18×
• State v. Miramon
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1976-08-11· cited 16×
• State v. Coley
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1988-06-21· cited 5×
• State v. Barreras
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1975-11-26· cited 5×
• In re Brittany Y.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2006-11-16· cited 4×
• Kemp v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-11-16· cited 1×