context: After obtaining a search warrant, the officers entered his car and uncovered $1,250,000 worth of cocaine, a digital gram scale, and a gun in Griffin's briefcase. From the totality of the circumstances surrounding the arrest and Griffin's extreme anxiety, the district court, as trier of fact, was entitled to infer that Griffin knew of the cocaine in his vehicle's cargo space.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 94 F.3d 324, 324-25
citation_a.parenthetical: jury properly inferred from the defendant's nervousness, lies to police, and contradictory actions that defendant knew of the cocaine's presence
citation_a.sentence: See Stribling, 94 F.3d at 324-25 (jury properly inferred from the defendant’s nervousness, lies to police, and contradictory actions that defendant knew of the cocaine’s presence); see also Uriostegui-Estrada, 86 F.3d at 89 (fact finder could reasonably believe that drug smuggler would not entrust cargo worth more than $1 million to a stranger unaware of its value).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 86 F.3d 89, 89
citation_b.parenthetical: fact finder could reasonably believe that drug smuggler would not entrust cargo worth more than $1 million to a stranger unaware of its value
citation_b.sentence: See Stribling, 94 F.3d at 324-25 (jury properly inferred from the defendant’s nervousness, lies to police, and contradictory actions that defendant knew of the cocaine’s presence); see also Uriostegui-Estrada, 86 F.3d at 89 (fact finder could reasonably believe that drug smuggler would not entrust cargo worth more than $1 million to a stranger unaware of its value).