State v. Espinoza-Barragan

In this criminal case, defendant appeals the trial court’s judgment convicting and sentencing him for one count of delivery of methamphetamine, ORS 475.890.1 On appeal, defendant challenges the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence that, he argues, derived from a violation of his rights under Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution.2 As in the trial court, defendant argues that (1) he was unlawfully detained when a police officer, who had stopped him for a traffic violation, extended the stop by initiating a drug investigation without reasonable suspicion to do so,…