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Eighth Circuit· 12/18/1990

United States v. Philip William Pace

Citations

  • 922 F.2d 451
  • 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 21792
  • 1990 WL 205482

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a jury must have had reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant knew about 200 pounds of cocaine in the vehicle he was helping to drive from Los Angeles to Chicago
  • noting that the defendant had no reason to know drugs were contained in the other traveler’s luggage
  • noting that the defendant did not own the vehicle or the luggage containing the drugs
  • reversing a conviction of a passenger in a vehicle containing drugs worth between $12 and $15 million because there was insufficient evidence to prove the passenger was aware of the drugs
  • reversing a conviction of a passenger in a vehicle containing drugs worth between $12 and $15 million because there was insufficient evidence to prove the passenger was aware of the drugs
  • “giving the government the benefit of all reasonable inferences from that evidence”

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Judges: Arnold, Fagg, Magill

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