State v. Wabinga

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for one count of unlawful possession of cocaine, ORS 475.884. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence, contending that the officers seized him without reasonable suspicion. We affirm.

We review the trial court’s denial of a motion to suppress for legal error, and we defer to the trial court’s findings of historical fact if they are supported by constitutionally sufficient evidence in the record. State v. Bertha, 256 Or App 375, 378, 300 P3d 265 (2013). In the absence of express findings, any factual disputes are…