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Opinion
21 Va. App. 435 · Court of Appeals of Virginia · Dec 19, 1995
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Ricky Lamont JONES v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia
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Parentheticals
holding that the circumstantial evidence of a drug sale was sufficient to support the defendant’s conviction despite the fact that the informant was out of view of the officers as he traveled to and from the location set for the transaction
holding that the fact that police did not have the informant under surveillance the entire time he was away from them did not establish a hypothesis of innocence where the circumstantial evidence established the informant obtained drugs from the defendant
noting in part that the investigating officer searched the informant before the controlled buy, gave him money with which to purchase drugs, and found after the transaction that he had cocaine and no longer had the money
affirming drug distribution conviction based on - 24 - circumstantial evidence of criminal agency because the evidence supported a finding that the informant “could not have obtained the [controlled substance] from a source other than the defendant”
A meeting between the defendant and the police informant was arranged “for the purpose of purchasing drugs.”
A meeting between the defendant and the police informant was arranged “for the purpose of purchasing drugs.”
