United States v. Anderson

The majority holds today that a jury may now infer a defendant’s knowledge of the contents of a bag he never possessed based simply on the fact, demonstrated at trial, that the bag contained “high value” drugs and there exists a record of some number of phone calls of unknown content between the defendant’s cell phone and the cell phones of the principals of the conspiracy. Maj. Op. 66-67. The holding relies on what the majority characterizes as a “common sense” determination that the high value of the drugs in the bag is evidence of a significant trust relationship when considered in…