State v. Kerfoot’s Empirical Analysis

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37 state decisions

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1. “[T]he same cannot be said for the remainder of the marijuana. All of the marijuana was found in places on the farm to which defendant, during the course of farming, would have had easy access. The growing marijuana plants were very tall, bushy and easily observed. They had obviously been growing for sometime and were only a short distance from the corn field which defendant had personally planted. The three closest outbuildings to the trailer — a grain bin, hog shed and tool shed — all had drying marijuana plants in them. The plants in the open hog shed were draped from the rafters and were easily observed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Guinn

2. ““A state’s witness, a forensic chemist, testified that the growing plants and the matter seized from the trailer were marijuana. Sheriff Waide testified without objection that, the plant material seized from the grain bin, hog shed, and tool shed was marijuana. 'Police officers can testify that in their opinion a certain substance is marijuana. Such testimony is sufficiént, in the absence of a chemical analysis by an expert,- to make a submissible case on this issue. [Citation omitted.]” . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 16 Kan. App. 2d 443 - State v. Northrup