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· 3/25/1999

United States v. Jonathan S. Edwards

Citations

  • 166 F.3d 1362
  • 1999 WL 64440

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that “a defendant has constructive possession of a substance if it is being held by an agent of the defendant”
  • noting the defendant’s conviction could not be sustained under an aiding and abetting theory because the purported principal, a government agent, never intended to complete the substantive crime

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Judges: Tjoflat, Dubina, Smith

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