United States v. Philip William Pace

How courts have described this case

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• 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”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).