United States v. Obadiah Stephenson

How courts have described this case

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• fingerprints on glassine envelopes containing heroin insufficient to prove possession because no evidence that prints placed on envelopes when they contained heroin
• “the prints could have been placed on the glassine envelopes as long as a year before the seizure”
• evidence of defendant's fingerprints on the seized heroin envelopes was insufficient to convict because the prosecution introduced no evidence that his fingerprints were placed on the envelopes when they contained heroin
• insufficient evidence to support conviction for possession of heroin where only evidence linking defendant to heroin was fingerprints on glassine envelopes containing heroin but no evidence showing fingerprints placed on envelopes when they contained heroin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).