7 Or. App. 515 - State v. Goetz’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “Defendant seems to have assumed, as part of his argument in this court, that any usable-amount question is limited to the amount of narcotics that the state literally introduced as evidence at trial, that is, two or less milligrams in this case. We have, however, discovered no cases that would support such a concept, even in those states that have adopted a usable-amount requirement. Instead, the amount of narcotics the defendant had in his possession, like any element of any other crime, can be proven by circumstantial evidence. [Citations omitted.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bernard v. United States · Jones v. United States