State v. Dominguez-Martinez

*208CARSON, C. J.

On December 8, 1991, an Oregon State Police Trooper saw a 1980 Cadillac with California license plates traveling north on Interstate 5. The automobile exhibited characteristics that the trooper associated with narcotics trafficking.1 The trooper followed the automobile and, after observing it change lanes twice without signaling, he turned on his overhead flashing lights and stopped the automobile.

The trooper approached the driver’s side of the automobile. Defendant, Jose Aramis Dominguez-Martinez, who was driving, told the trooper that Julio Alberto-Mirabal, the passenger, was…