Publisher's Synopsis
Knowledge cases: a driver pulls up at a bridge or checkpoint in a car not registered in his name. Federal Agents find a cache of drugs well hidden in a secret compartment somewhere in the body of the car. When confronted, the driver exclaims, "Drugs in the car I didn't know!!" Those are the basic facts of a knowledge case. The only issue in the trial of such cases was whether the defendant knew there were drugs in the vehicle at the time he drove it up to the checkpoint or border crossing. Easy enough it seems. In practice, however, proving why the concept of knowledge necessarily existed in the defendant's mind at a certain point in time proved to be a most slippery, conceptual fish. This book is about knowledge cases, my introduction to them, and, to some extent, the manner of their prosecution.
