State v. Ponce

Defendant appeals from his convictions for Kidnapping in the First Degree, Robbery in the First Degree, Attempted Sodomy in the First Degree and Assault in the Second Degree. He cites as error the denial by the trial court of his motion to suppress evidence which he contends was obtained as the result of an illegal stop.

Testimony presented at the suppression hearing revealed that on the date in question an Oregon State Police officer received a radio message describing an assault upon a hitchhiker which was reported to have "just occurred” in the Tigard area, approximately ten miles north of…