State v. Stock

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for escape in the third degree. ORS 162.145. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence of a controlled substance discovered by a police officer conducting an inventory of a car in which defendant was a passenger. Defendant contends that the officer violated the police department’s vehicle inventory policy by opening a closed container — a small plastic bag that had been placed inside a folded bottle cap — that the officer discovered, along with a used syringe and meth pipe, under defendant’s car seat. The state…