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State v. Miles
Court of Appeals of South Carolina (2017) | 805 S.E.2d 204; 421 S.C. 154; 2017 S.C. App. LEXIS 72
TL;DR: A man was convicted of trafficking oxycodone after picking up a package containing the pills. The court held the prosecution only needed to prove he knew the package contained illegal drugs, not that he specifically knew the drugs were oxycodone.
Legal Significance: Establishes a key precedent in South Carolina: for drug trafficking, the 'knowingly' mens rea applies to the illicit nature of the substance, not its specific chemical identity. The quantity of the drug remains a strict liability element for grading the offense.