State v. Transou

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the evidence did not establish constructive possession where defendants did not reside in the apartment
• holding that prosecutor’s improper comment upon the defendant’s right against self-incrimination and right to remain silent during the trial, made in argument, was harmless error
• holding that improper commentary on the defendant‟s silence was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt where “the comment was brief, the trial court found that the violation was not intentional, and the trial court gave a detailed curative instruction”
• finding that marijuana seized incident to a valid arrest was clearly admissible
• stating that circumstances of defendants’ presence in residence where drugs were found in another person’s bedroom and on the person of yet another invited mere speculation and were insufficient to support a finding of defendant’s constructive possession
• applying harmless error analysis to the prosec utor’s com men t on the de fendan t’s failure to tes tify which violated the defe ndant’s F ifth Am endm ent privilege a gainst se lf-incrimin ation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).