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· 4/26/1991

State v. Thronsen

Citations

  • 809 P.2d 941
  • 1991 Alas. App. LEXIS 29
  • 1991 WL 63841

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • defendant could not be convicted of cocaine in his body because he did not have control over the cocaine and therefore, could not be in possession
  • positive drug test could not sustain conviction for cocaine possession because defendant ceased having control of it once it entered his body
  • “[A] person who has cocaine in his or her body has no control over the cocaine and therefore does not have possession.”
  • trial judge reasoned that cocaine in the blood or mine could he used as circumstantial evidence that defendant had earlier possessed cocaine

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Judges: Bryner, Coats, Andrews, Mannheimer

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