293 Ga. App. 312 - Prather v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Possession may be either actual or constructive. Constructive possession exists where a person though not in actual possession, knowingly has both the power and the intention at a given time to exercise dominion or control over a thing[, and it must be] based upon some connection between the defendant and the contraband other than spatial proximity. 16”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 Ga. App. 319 - Aguey-Zinsou v. State

2. “[T]o warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts need exclude only reasonable hypotheses-not bare possibilities that the crime could have been committed by someone else. And questions of reasonableness are generally decided by the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. DUNCAN v. the STATE.

3. “slight evidence of access, power, and intention to exercise control or dominion over an instrumentality, the question of fact regarding constructive possession remains within the domain of the trier of fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 Ga. App. 408 - Wooten v. State