94 Conn. App. 188 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Golding · Kissinger v. Halperin · Paalan v. United States · State v. Januszewski · State v. Colon
Most-quoted passages
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“To mitigate the possibility that innocent persons might be prosecuted for ... possessory offenses ... it is essential that the state's evidence include more than just a temporal and spatial nexus between the defendant and the contraband.... While mere presence is not enough to support an inference of dominion or control, where there are other pieces of evidence tying the defendant to dominion and control, the [finder of fact is] entitled to consider the fact of [the defendant's] presence and to draw inferences from that presence and the other circumstances linking [the defendant] to the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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