State v. Rounds

Defendant appeals his conviction for possession of a controlled substance, ORS 475.992, assigning error to the trial court’s denial of his pretrial motion to suppress LSD seized from his backpack in his grandparents’ carport. We affirm.

On July 30, 1982, during the “Garibaldi Days” festival, a city police officer was dispatched to an unoccupied house to investigate a report of a suspicious person. A neighbor had phoned the police stating that he had seen a “suspicious” man walk around the house and try the doors, set a backpack in the adjacent open carport and leave. The man returned to the…