Sierra v. State
Florida District Court of Appeal
746 So.2d 1250 (1999)
Relevant factsFree
Police stopped Sierra (defendant) a few feet outside a commercial garage after seeing an unidentified person enter it, found no drugs on him, but later searched the garage under warrant and found cocaine, a measuring cup, and empty bags, with Sierra's fingerprints only on the cup and empty bags (not the cocaine) and also found on a car parked outside along with another person's prints; no evidence showed Sierra ever had exclusive possession of or any possessory interest in the garage, and the trial court denied his motion for judgment of acquittal.
IssueFree
Whether a defendant's proximity to drugs establishes that the drugs were in his constructive possession in a drug-trafficking prosecution.