· 3/19/1976
United States v. Luis Martin Haro-Portillo
Citations
- 531 F.2d 962
- 1976 U.S. App. LEXIS 12307
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a driver exercises dominion and control over his vehicle and its contents, and “when one drives a car laden with contraband, there is a substantial basis from which the trier of fact may infer that the driver has knowing possession of the contraband”
- inconsistencies and improbabilities in driver's story strengthens inference of knowing possession
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Judges: Duniway, Trask, Battin
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