Simply finding drugs in a person's house is insufficient to prove possession in a legal sense; the prosecution must prove the person knew the drugs were there and had control over them. Where a trial judge correctly identifies the elements of possession and expressly considers the defence hypothesis that a third party was in exclusive possession, the judge need not repeat every piece of evidence considered in rejecting that hypothesis. The adequacy of reasons in a judge-alone trial does not require the same level of detail as a summing up to a jury.
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