United States v. Thomas De Leon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “dominion and control” language in jury instructions “implicitly instruct[s]” the jury that “simply touch[ing]” is insufficient to establish possession
• concluding that the defendant “was more than a casual visitor” to the house because “[i]t [could] be reasonably inferred from this evidence that [he] had authority to keep personal belongings” there
• concluding that, although there was no evidence that the house was the defendant’s primary residence, a jury could reasonably infer constructive possession based on other evidence tying the defendant to the premises and the contraband located there
• finding that a defendant’s “thumbprint on the box of ammunition would also lead a jury to reasonably infer” that the defendant possessed it
• suggesting that a “partial fingerprint” could show that a defendant “merely touched the box”
• finding sufficient evidence to infer constructive possession where ammunition was found near defendant’s state parole document, inside a dresser in defendant’s girlfriend’s home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).