State v. Powell

In this case, the trial court found that defendant’s statements to private investigators were induced by the investigators’ promises of leniency and other benefits and therefore suppressed those statements and a second set of inculpatory statements that defendant made to a police officer on the same subject, both pursuant to ORS 136.425(1). 1 The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s order in part and reversed it in part. We affirm the order of the trial court.

This case comes before us on an interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s pretrial order of suppression. After conducting a…