Ledo v. State

We reverse the defendant’s cocaine trafficking conviction and order a new trial based on the following analysis.

The defendant was driving a car which police stopped. Upon observing a marijuana cigarette in the vehicle, the police officer undertook a search, found a cardboard box containing cocaine and arrested the defendant. At trial the defendant answered a cocaine trafficking charge with the defense that the car he was driving belonged to his sister-in-law and that he had no knowledge concerning the nature of the substance which was found inside the box. The defendant was convicted of the…