WARD

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (28 total)

• United States v. Santore, 290 F.2d 51 (2d Cir. 1960)
  …control; Nar-ducci was thwarted before achieving this. Decisions, both by divided courts, that fingerprint evidence is enough to permit an inference of possession, Stoppelli v. United States, 9 Cir., 1950, 183 F. 2d 391, 393, certiorari denied 1950, 340 U.S. 864, 71 S.Ct. 88, 95 L.Ed. 631; United States v. Pisano, 7 Cir., 1951, 193 F. 2d 361, 365, are not to the contrary; in such cases there was no evidence that the contact was but momentary, as there was here. . Three of my colleagues read the narcotics l…
• United States v. Lefkowitz, 284 F.2d 310 (2d Cir. 1960)
  …later. The government relies on decisions that fingerprint evidence suffices for submitting to a jury the issue of possession of narcotics under 21 U.S.C.A. § 174, Stoppelli v. United States, 9 Cir., 1950, 183 F. 2d 391, 393, certiorari denied 1950, 340 U.S. 864, 71 S.Ct. 88, 95 L.Ed. 631; United States v. Pisano, 7 Cir., 1951, 193 F. 2d 361, 365, both over dissents. Accepting these decisions arguendo, we think there is a significant difference between drawing an inference of possession of narcotics from fi…
• Eason v. United States, 281 F.2d 818 (9th Cir. 1960)
  …over property on or in which contraband narcotics are found, is a potent circumstance tending to prove knowledge of the presence of such narcotics, and control thereof.” In Stoppelli v. United States, 9 Cir., 1950, 183 F. 2d 391, certiorari denied 340 U.S. 864, 71 S.Ct. 88, 95 L.Ed. 631, this Court considered the contention that the circumstantial evidence upon which the [*821] defendant had been convicted was as consistent with a theory of innocence as with one of guilt. We stated, at page 393 of 183 F.…