United States v. Miguel Barajas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant who drove a truck rented under his brother’s name constructively possessed drugs found inside
• holding that a jury could interpret a defendant acting “exceptionally nervous” as “suggesting a consciousness of guilt”
• “[W]e do not review questions involving the credibility of witnesses, but leave credibility questions to the jury.”
• “The jury heard testimony that [the defendant] was exceptionally nervous at the traffic stop, a fact that the jury could reasonably interpret as suggesting a consciousness of guilt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).