State v. Olendorff

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for unlawful possession of methamphetamine, ORS 475.894, and driving while suspended, ORS 811.182, challenging only the first of those convictions. That conviction followed an incident in which police officers seized defendant’s purse after arresting her for a traffic offense. A later inventory of the purse revealed a bindle containing methamphetamine. The trial court denied defendant’s motion to suppress evidence of the methamphetamine and of statements that she made about the contents of the purse. Defendant argues that the police unlawfully seized…