Opinion ID: 616972
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Trailer Window

Text: There is also the nature of the shipment which the jury could have weighed to find knowledge. While both sides agree that the trailer compartment was locked when the defendant received it, they dispute whether he could have seen the relative emptiness of the trailer. There was a six by twelve inch window through which a person could look into the trailer. It was noon when the defendant was stopped. Whether or not Moreno-Gonzalez could have seen that the shipment inside was not in fact ‘produce’ but was U-Haul boxes, or that the shipment only took up one-eighth of the trailer, are factors that the jury could have weighed. The jury could have determined that given the incomplete bill of lading that the defendant admitted looking at—including the incomplete 7 No. 10-40684 information on what he was shipping—an innocent person would have looked inside to verify what he was transporting. Taken together, the jury could have easily concluded that this story was so unlikely or implausible as to infer knowledge of the drugs. We have repeatedly “acknowledged that a less-thancredible explanation for a defendant’s actions is part of the overall circumstantial evidence from which possession and knowledge may be inferred.” United States v. Diaz-Carreon, 915 F.2d 951, 955 (5th Cir. 1990)(internal quotation marks omitted).