State v. Baron

The state appeals from an order sustaining defendant’s motion to suppress heroin discovered in defendant’s trousers while police officers searched a dwelling under a search warrant.

The essential facts are:

A party of city police officers went to a Portland residence to execute a search warrant at about 11 a.m. The warrant provided for the search of three named persons and the residence for heroin, narcotics, narcotic paraphernalia and items of identification. After they entered, they went to one of the bedrooms where they found defendant and a young woman asleep in bed. The officers requested…