Legal Opinion
State v. Morris
Court of Appeals of Oregon
Decided February 22, 1982No. C 79-02-30615, CA A20650PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWarden, J.
The state appeals the trial court’s pretrial order suppressing evidence obtained during a warrantless search of defendant’s person. The state contends that the search was performed incident to arrest after a lawful stop of defendant and two companions.
The facts are undisputed. On February 24, 1979, police officer Duley was on patrol with his partner, Officer Lerwick, in a marked police car. At about 3:05 a.m., the officers were on East Powell Valley Road near Southeast Kane in Gresham. Their attention was drawn to defendant, who was walking east on Powell with two other young males. Officer…
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