State v. Bracco

Upon trial to the court defendant was convicted of possession of dangerous drags. ORS 167.207. On appeal he contends that his motion to suppress the evidence, the drugs seized from his attache' case, should have been granted.

A paid police informant came out of a motel room and advised a group of policemen with whom she had been working that there were drugs in the room and that if they wanted to get the drugs they had better hurry. The evidence clearly supports a finding that up until this event the police did not have probable cause to either arrest the defendant or search the motel room in…