Opinion ID: 2795796
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Heading: The Drugs and Scales in the Car

Text: The car was not Mr. Washington’s; it was a rental that Mr. Edwards borrowed from his mother. Though Mr. Edwards had fourteen bricks of marijuana in his duffel bag, there were no drugs (or anything else incriminating) in Mr. Washington’s duffel bag. There were drugs in a “Green Tea Extract” bottle, a red “Cold-Eeze” box, and a black zipper bag. But, there was no evidence that Mr. Washington could have seen inside these containers. See p. 11, below. There were also two scales in the car, and the government presented evidence that drug dealers often use scales to weigh their drugs. Record on 5 Appeal, vol. 2 (Trial Transcript), pt. 1, at 178, 193. But, these scales were not easily visible. One was in a black box, and the other was designed to look like an ordinary iPhone. There was no evidence that either scale was Mr. Washington’s or that he even knew there was a scale in the car.