State v. Swartsfager

Defendant was convicted of unlawful possession of marihuana. Former ORS 474.020. He appeals, assigning as sole error the denial of his motion to suppress evidence.

At approximately 11 p.m. the defendant, a minor, was observed by the arresting officer operating a motor vehicle at a high rate of speed. He was alone in the car. When asked for his license, he gave the officer a license of another person as his own. However, one of the arresting officers, Anderson, knew the defendant as the result of a prior automobile accident investigation, and that he was driving with a suspended operator’s…