State v. Foster

Defendant, who was convicted of possession of methamphetamine, ORS 475.894, argues on appeal that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence found during a warrantless search of his car. In particular, defendant argues that the trial court erred in concluding that probable cause existed to support the search. As explained below, we conclude that the trial court properly denied suppression. Accordingly, we affirm.

We state the facts consistently with the trial court’s explicit and implicit findings and determine “whether the trial court applied legal principles correctly…