State v. Pirtle

Defendant, who was convicted of felon in possession of a firearm, ORS 166.270, appeals, assigning error to the denial of his motion to suppress the fruits of a warrantless search of a pickup truck, which yielded the weapon on which his conviction is predicated. Specifically, defendant contends that the search did not fall within the “automobile exception” to the warrant requirement, because the pickup was stopped and, hence, not mobile, at the time that the police initially encountered it “in connection with a suspected crime.” State v. Kurokawa-Lasciak, 351 Or 179, 192-93, 263 P3d 336…