State v. Morelli

Defendant appeals his convictions for delivery and possession of a controlled substance, ORS 475.992, in a trial to the court on stipulated facts. He assigns as error the denial of his motion to suppress a baggie containing heroin. We affirm.

We take the facts from the trial court’s findings. Officer Field and his partner were in uniform in a high crime area in Portland’s Old Town, looking for a person, Shadd, for whom there was an outstanding arrest warrant. Field had worked in that area for 10 years and had become familiar with the drug trade practices and some cf the people who frequented…