Court of Appeals of Utah· 11/4/1991

State v. Salas

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820 P.2d 1386
173 Utah Adv. Rep. 15
1991 Utah App. LEXIS 169
1991 WL 238139

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holding that ownership and eo-occu-paney of a vehicle, along with an anonymous informant’s tip, was insufficient to establish a nexus
acknowledging that drugs found where a passenger had been sitting \renders the remaining evidence sufficiently inconclusive as to whether defendant knew of the presence of the cocaine\
“In order to find that the accused was in possession of drugs found in an automo- bile he was not the sole occupant of, and did not have sole access to, there must be other evidence to buttress such an inference.”

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Judges: Bench, Billings, Orme

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