Court Opinion

ID: 9461043
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:04:30.617114+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:51.992577
License: Public Domain

ENGEL, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
Upon the same facts, I am unable to agree that there was sufficient evidence to support the conviction of Williams, Sr. on the possession count. In my opinion the facts show the essential element of control to be missing. Whoever or whatever caused the claim check to be separated from the bag, at the same time caused it to be lost, and deprived its purported owner of the power to control it. There is no evidence of when or how this event occurred. By the time any constructive possession of the bag had been regained, the narcotics had already been removed and turned over to authorities. I would reverse the conviction of Williams, Sr.