48 Va. App. 653 - Coward v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2011
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Higginbotham v. Commonwealth · 38 Va. App. 375 - Wactor v. Commonwealth · Drew v. Commonwealth · Ritter v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“in order for ownership or occupancy of property or of a vehicle to be sufficient to support the inference that the owner or occupant also possessed contraband that was located on the property or in the vehicle, the owner or occupant must be shown to have exercised dominion and control over the premises and to have known of the presence, nature, and character of the contraband at the time of such ownership or occupancy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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