P. v. Smith
Defendant Alonzo Smith was charged with possession of cocaine base for sale and transporting cocaine base. According to the police report, after law enforcement officers removed a plastic bindle containing approximately 3.43 grams of crack cocaine from his pocket, he began yelling, Somebody help me! Police brutality! They just planted drugs on me. At trial, defendant testified the officers found the cocaine elsewhere and just . . . sa[id] that they found it in [his] pocket.
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