State v. Leach

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• holding that even though Leach had ready access to the apartment he may have shared with his brother, the evidence was insufficient to establish that he was in possession of PCP in a closed container and paraphernalia in the bedroom closet
• holding that even though Leach had ready access to the apartment he may have shared with his brother, the evidence was insufficient to establish that he was in possession of PCP in a closed container and paraphernalia in the bedroom closet
• holding the evidence of possession is insufficient against one person where drugs only were found in a bedroom of another person and there is no proof of drugs in common areas of the apartment
• holding the evidence of possession is insufficient against one person where drugs only were found in a bedroom of another person and there is no proof of drugs in common areas of the apartment
• holding the evidence of possession is insufficient against one person where drugs only were found in a bedroom of another person and there is no proof of drugs in common areas of the apartment
• reversing the defendant’s convictions for possession of PCP and paraphernalia recovered from a closed container and a bedroom closet, respectively, in an apartment the defendant shared with his brother, where the brother was found to be the “occupant” of the premises

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-10-20· cited 96×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2010-07-23· cited 91×
• Moye v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-16· cited 88×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-07-29· cited 87×
• State v. Wallace
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-11· cited 85×
• State v. Suddith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-02-12· cited 72×
• Birchead v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-12-04· cited 65×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-05· cited 58×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-05-09· cited 49×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-12-06· cited 36×
• Pringle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-08-27· cited 34×
• Livingston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-10-11· cited 34×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-01-04· cited 26×
• Ezenwa v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-02· cited 24×
• Stuckey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-11-05· cited 18×
• Housing Opportunities Commission v. Lacey
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-02-07· cited 17×
• Larocca v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-09-29· cited 17×
• Handy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-08-31· cited 17×
• McIntyre v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-04-28· cited 13×
• Sellman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-07-07· cited 10×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Henson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-11-13· cited 86×
• Garrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-06-28· cited 59×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-06-08· cited 44×
• Rucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1950-11-15· cited 26×