Legal Opinion
Rivas v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 23, 2001No. 97-CF-304PublishedCited by 215 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON REHEARING EN BANC
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge.
Applying principles of constructive possession, a jury convicted appellant Balta-zar Rivas and his codefendant Jose Melgar of possessing, with intent to distribute, cocaine found in plastic bags that lay between them in the console of a car in which Melgar was the driver and Rivas the front seat passenger. A division of this court affirmed both convictions in Rivas v. United States, 734 A.2d 655 (D.C.1999) (Rivas I). We granted Rivas’s petition for rehearing en banc in order to reconsider a rule followed in Rivas I and other recent cases that…
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