State v. Guerrero

Defendant appeals his conviction, which was based on a conditional guilty plea, for delivery of a controlled substance, ORS 475.992. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence that the police found inside a closed container during a jail inventory of defendant’s property. We reverse.

The relevant facts are not in dispute. On March 25, 2004, defendant was a passenger in a car that Salem police officers stopped. The officers arrested him on an outstanding warrant and took him to the Marion County Jail. Defendant refused to consent to a search of his person.…