United States v. Pedro Luis Christopher Tinoco

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that when we are assessing the sufficiency of the evidence, we accept all reasonable inferences and credibility choices in favor of the jury’s verdict
• ruling that the defendants “effectively abandoned the contraband and thus have no Fourth Amendment standing to challenge the seizure,” when the Coast Guard retrieved the cocaine after the defendants threw it into the ocean
• noting that a defendant’s presence is a “material factor” that “becomes more significant” when the conspiracy involved high-value contraband
• “The stand- ard for what constitutes relevant evidence is a low one.”
• “The standard for what constitutes relevant evidence is a low one”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).