State v. Kyle Nicholas Rios

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the jury may weigh a prior conviction for drug trafficking “against any inference that [the defendant] had no knowledge of the drugs in his car”
• holding evidence of 7-year- old drug trafficking conviction involving .38 kilograms of marijuana was admissible in a case involving more than 3 kilograms of methamphetamine
• explaining that prior drug deals can be used as evidence of intent to distribute
• finding probable cause to support search warrant where the CI and officer “arranged a delivery of methamphetamine” to the defendant
• applying independent source doctrine where law enforcement officers conducted a warrantless search of cell phones seized from defendants and then later applied for and obtained a search warrant to search the phones
• applying independent source doctrine where law enforcement officers conducted a warrantless search of cell phones seized from defendants and then later applied for and obtained a search warrant to search the phones

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).