United States v. Wayne Marvin Gordon and John Joseph McMahon Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• overturning conviction of passenger in vehicle carrying marijuana where \the driver of the car made no reference to the defendant’s participation in any smuggling activity\
• reversing passenger-defendant’s conviction where there was no evidence “beyond [the defendant’s] ‘mere presence’ in the truck, to indicate that he had maintained control over the contraband”
• reversing defendant’s conviction for possession of marihuana with intent to distribute where the defendant was only present in the vehicle with the drugs with no other evidence connecting him to drugs
• reversing defendant’s conviction for possession of marihuana with intent to distribute where the defendant was only present in the vehicle with the drugs with no other evidence connecting him to drugs
• reversing defendant’s conviction for possession of marihuana with intent to distribute when the defendant was only present in the vehicle with the drugs and no other evidence connected him to drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).