- Joined
- May 29, 2021
The state has to prove that the safe belongs to him and not "Maybe someone else who was at the house but got kicked off but is acting like a jilted bitch."
The state doesn't have to prove any such thing. Its known as "constructive possession". They have to prove knowledge, intent and control of the drugs. The drugs being in his bedroom where he freely admitted to the police that he sleeps makes any attempt to challenge on this point just about doomed to failure. If the drugs were in a safe in the other house or in the living room of the main house, he might be able to make a credible argument. But in his bedroom with other coke out in the open? Just forget it. Even if the safe didn't belong to him, that wouldn't help a whole lot.
I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it bewilders me that he 'lost track' of his mortgage. His cope is that he was busy and that his bank account was in flux at the time.
He didn't lose track. He didn't pay his mortgage for probably a year, got forclosed on, ignored all the stuff that goes on the forclosure process to find a solution and then watched things progress to the point where they were just about ready to auction off his mortgage. This isn't an "oops" thing. Its an ignore it for a year thing.