Yates v. Sturgis

How courts have described this case

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• giving false name to officers among the factors supporting constructive possession finding
• similar transaction evidence provided proof of intent to exercise control over cocaine within appellant’s reach in addition to the circumstantial evidence also presented
• “Circumstantial evidence that multiple occupants of a car had equal access to hidden contraband may support the theory that all the occupants were guilty as parties to the crime and had joint constructive possession of the contraband.”
• Maddox, who was front seat passenger in car owned by another, found in constructive possession of cocaine in console between passenger and driver’s seats when no one was in driver’s seat, back seat passengers could not easily access console, and Maddox had bundles of cash on his person
• Maddox, who was front seat passenger in car owned by another, found in constructive possession of cocaine in console between passenger and 5 driver’s seats when noone was in driver’s seat, back seat passengers could not easily access console, and Maddox had bundles of cash on his person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).