Opinion ID: 51207
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Heading: One of the witnesses encountered Stoddard

Text: About 9:30 in the evening, a truck left the at the convenience store before the arrest and side of the road and careened into a tree. Two returned to identify him at the scene. Another witnesses approached the truck and observed witness encountered Stoddard and an officer its sole occupant emerge in a daze. Both later that night at the hospital and positively witnesses inquired as to the driver’s health, identified Stoddard a week later from a singleand one dialed 911. By the time the police photo display. arrived, the driver had wandered away. Stoddard pleaded not guilty to a three- Inside the truck, police found a loaded .38 count indictment and was convicted of one caliber pistol in the glove box, a TEC-9 semi- count of firearm possession and one count of automatic pistol in the floorboard, a large possession of methamphetamine with intent to number of plastic bags, a scale, a grinding ma- distribute, a third count having been dismissed chine, and, in the center console, a large per government motion. Stoddard appeals, amount of crystal methamphetamine, and claiming that the evidence was insufficient as $1,580 in currency divided up into one-hun- a matter of law on both counts and that the dred-dollar increments. Police also found a witness identifications should have been supshirt and a pill bottle with Stoddard’s name on pressed because the police procedures were them and two notebooks bearing his name and unduly suggestive. address.