State v. Lasu

How courts have described this case

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• swallowing of drugs is a method of deposing of evidence that has effect of making its recovery impossible
• reviewing sufficiency of the evidence for tampering with evidence where the defendant discarded a large bag of marijuana on top of a bin after being confronted and followed by police
• to conceal or remove physical evidence, within meaning of subdivision (1)(a) of this section, is to act in a way that will prevent it from being disclosed or recognized
• “It would be contrary to our basic principles of statutory construction, and to common sense, to conclude that a misdemeanor possession of marijuana would become a Class IV felony because the defendant drops the contraband in plain view.”
• “It would be contrary to our basic principles of statutory construction, and to common sense, to conclude that a misdemeanor possession of marijuana would become a Class IV felony because the defendant drops the contraband in plain view.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).