State v. Rodal

Defendant appeals his conviction for manufacture of a controlled substance, ORS 475.992, following a trial to the court on stipulated facts. Defendant makes four assignments of error on appeal, all pertaining to the trial court’s refusal to suppress evidence obtained as a result of aerial surveillance that located marijuana growing at defendant’s residence and the subsequent investigative actions by the police. We affirm.

On September 9, 1996, Officer Royster, an Oregon State Police detective assigned to the Regional Organized Crime Narcotics Agency, flew over defendant’s property in a…