State v. Kingsmith

Defendant, who was convicted, following a conditional guilty plea, of possession of methamphetamine, ORS 475.894, appeals. She assigns error to the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress, contending that the extension of the traffic stop of a car in which she was a passenger was not supported by reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. Or Const, Art I, § 9; ORS 131.615. Defendant argues, in the alternative that even if the officers who stopped the car had reasonable suspicion that certain occupants of the car were involved in criminal drug activity, the evidence did not support a…