State v. Brown

Defendant was charged with 22 counts of identity-theft. The evidence against her derived entirely from the warrantless search of two bags that defendant had denied owning and had left in a hotel room rented by another person. Defendant moved to suppress the evidence against her on the ground that it had been obtained through a search that violated Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution and the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The trial court concluded that the search of the bag violated Article I, section 9, and suppressed the evidence. The Court of Appeals…