What is Exercising Control and Dominion in New York?


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That’s where a person does have control of the drugs or of the illegal item but only for a very short period of time, and it can be a defense. You have to exercise what’s typically phrased as control and dominion over the item. It’s not just that a person has controlled the item for a few seconds or a few minutes but the person actually, I suppose, generally speaking, you could think of an ownership of the item.

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