United States v. Daniel Blue

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “it is within our power to direct entry of judgment on a lesser included offense when vacating a greater offense” if the commission of the lesser offense “can be established from facts that the jury actually found” (citations omitted)
• noting that “[i]n joint occupancy cases, there must be some additional nexus linking the defendant to the contraband”
• finding that evidence of the defendant’s one-time presence at a house that contained a drug stash was not sufficient to prove the defendant’s constructive possession of the stash

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).