United States v. Barela Cruz, United States of America v. Rufino Gonzales

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• noting that “knowledge of presence, combined with control over the thing is constructive possession”
• finding insufficient evidence of possession where the defendant stayed in the residence, but there Was no evidence that he knew of or exercised control over the contraband found there
• to prove conspiracy, government must prove existence of agreement to achieve illegal purpose, and defendant’s knowledge of agreement and knowing participation in conspiracy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).