Commonwealth v. Humphries

The defendant, Jerold Humphries, seeks to overturn two drug offense convictions,1 claiming that his motion for a required finding of not guilty after the Commonwealth’s case in chief should have been allowed. We conclude that the evidence of constructive possession was insufficient to support his conviction and we reverse.2

*703Facts.3 A Boston police detective testified that the police executed a search warrant for an apartment at 15 Wentworth Street, in the Dorchester section of Boston, on November 15, 2003. They seized “crack” cocaine and marijuana in a back bedroom where two men were hiding in…