State v. Wilson

Defendant appeals his conviction of criminal activity in drugs, ORS 167.207, for possession of heroin and bringing heroin into a jail. His principal assignment of error is the denial of his motion to suppress evidence based on his assertion that the officer who stopped him in the jail had no reasonable suspicion that he possessed heroin and that the subsequent search was conducted without probable cause.

At approximately 1:30 p.m. on November 26,1976, the date of the arrest, Deputy Sheriff McDade received information from an informant that defendant was supplying heroin to certain inmates of…