State v. Briggs

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII) and driving while suspended or revoked. He was arrested after Brown, a Deschutes County deputy sheriff, responded to an anonymous report indicating that a man was intoxicated and driving erratically in a resort parking lot. The deputy arrived at the scene and spotted defendant. Believing that defendant matched the informant’s description, Brown pursued him and made a warrantless entry into one of the resort’s guest condominiums, where he found and subsequently arrested him. At a pretrial hearing,…