State v. Neujahr

How courts have described this case

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• interpreting Neb. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 28-416(3): “[A] person knowingly or intentionally possessing a controlled substance. . . shall be guilty of a Class IV felony.”
• finding jury instruction about culpability element of possession of controlled substance statute was appropriate because State only needed to prove defendant knew substance in his possession was controlled substance
• “[T]he state must prove that [the defendant] knew the pills he possessed were a controlled substance, not that he knew the pills were clorazepate.”
• “[T]he State must prove that [defendant] knew the pills he possessed were a controlled substance, not that he knew the pills were clorazepate”
• “[T]he state must prove that [the defendant] knew the pills he possessed were a controlled substance, not that he knew the pills were clorazepate.”
• trial court did not abuse its dis- cretion by referring jury to instructions given when jury raised question adequately covered by those instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).