State v. Casteel

Defendants were charged with conspiracy and with possession, manufacturing and delivery of controlled substances. The trial court granted defendants’ motions to suppress tape recordings of conversations that they had with a police informant, because the investigating officers had not obtained an order authorizing their use of a body wire to record the conversations. The state appeals. ORS 138.060(3). We reverse.

The trial court conducted a stipulated facts hearing on defendants’ motions to suppress. In the summer of 1990, the Prineville Police Department coordinated an interagency drug…