State v. Caraher

*743ROBERTS, J.

The issue in this case is whether a search of defendant’s purse, including the opening of the coin compartment of a wallet within that purse, conducted without a warrant, after defendant was arrested and placed in a police car and the purse had been taken from her, is a search incident to arrest and therefore an exception to the warrant requirement of the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution and article 1, section 9 of the Oregon Constitution.1

Defendant has no prior criminal record and, until the events discussed here, had never been arrested. She came to police attention…