State v. Jones

The state appeals the trial court’s pretrial order granting defendant’s motion to suppress. On appeal, the state asserts that the court erred in concluding that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution compelled suppression of evidence that defendant possessed methamphetamine.1 Defendant, in a cross-assignment of error, asserts that the trial court incorrectly concluded that the evidence was not subject to suppression pursuant to Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution, and that the evidence should have been suppressed under that provision.2 As explained below, we agree…