State v. Cruz-Renteria

Defendant, who was convicted following a conditional plea of guilty to one count of possession of heroin, ORS 475.854, and one count of possession of methamphetamine, ORS 475.894, appeals. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress (1) physical evidence of methamphetamine possession, and derivative inculpatory statements, obtained after an officer elicited defendant’s consent to remove an item from his pocket; and (2) evidence of heroin possession discovered during a subsequent booking inventory of items, including the contents of closed containers, in defendant’s…