United States v. J.B. Rush

How courts have described this case

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• court may look “beyond his disavowal [of ownership] and examine the surrounding circumstances” using a “totality of circumstances” test, and focusing on whether or not the police officers “were justified in concluding that Mr. Rush had no expecta tion of privacy with respect to the bag_”
• A loaded firearm found in a car defendant was approaching when arrested was relevant to show possession of heroin with intent to distribute, because the weapon was a “tool of the trade,” and was an “essential part of the crime of possession with intent to distribute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).