State v. Crockett

Defendant was charged with theft in the second degree. ORS 164.045. She moved to suppress items seized as a result of a warantless search of her automobile after it had been stopped by a police officer. The motion was granted and the state appeals.

The defendant has effectively conceded that the stop was valid by not raising any substantial claim that it was invalid. Her argument that the search was invalid rests on an assumption that the stop was lawful. The officer stopped defendant and her companion on the basis of a radio bulletin issued by the police dispatcher. The dispatcher had…