State v. Ford

The state appeals from a circuit court order suppressing evidence. ORS 138.060(3).

Police officers were executing a search warrant for “Methamphetamines and Narcotics Paraphernalia” in a residence in Portland. While the search was successfully proceeding, defendant, who was not named in the warrant, drove up in front of the house, got out of the vehicle and proceeded into the house carrying shoes, shirt and pants. He entered the house and, seeing the police, stopped a few steps inside the front door. One of the officers felt that he recognized the defendant as a person who, a year prior, was…