State v. Makuch

In these two criminal cases, we decide whether the police unlawfully obtained evidence of defendants’ marijuana growing operation such that the evidence should be suppressed. The trial court suppressed that evidence under an Oregon statute, because the police had searched a lawyer’s personal organizer for defendants’ last names and addresses. The Court of Appeals reversed that part of the trial court’s orders, concluding that the protections of the Oregon statute did not apply in defendants’ cases and that the evidence should not be suppressed on any other ground. State v. Makuch/Riesterer,…