State v. Parker

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction for carrying a concealed weapon, ORS 166.240(1), assigning error to the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. Defendant argues that his consent, and, consequently, the discovery of the evidence, derived from a violation of his right under Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution 1 to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. 2 We conclude that the encounter may have been unlawful, depending on facts that neither party developed at trial, and that the encounter did lead to discovery of the evidence. In…