State v. Lien

**752Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution provides, in part, that "[n]o law shall violate the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search, or seizure[.]" These consolidated cases concern whether the warrantless search of defendants' garbage bin violated a protected interest of defendants under Article I, section 9.

Police officers discovered incriminating drug-related evidence in defendants' garbage by having a sanitation company manager specially pick up defendants' garbage bin on trash pick-up day, transport it to…