United States v. Robert Thomas Martinez

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “in essence, constructive possession is the ability to reduce an object to actual possession”
• finding sufficient evidence for constructive possession where the defendant had keys which allowed him to access the contraband, even where the defendant was not the owner of the contraband
• possession of the key to the trunk of the car sufficient even where defendant was not in the car when the contraband was confiscated
• passenger's possession of car trunk key and key to chests in trunk containing contraband sufficient to prove possession

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).