State v. Bliss

In State v. Brown, 301 Or 268, 273-79, 721 P2d 1357 (1986), the Supreme Court recognized the Oregon automobile exception to the warrant requirement of Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution. Under that exception, “ [p] robable cause to believe that a lawfully stopped vehicle which was mobile at the time of the stop contains contraband or other crime evidence justifies an immediate war-rantless search of the entire automobile for the object of the search.” Id. at 277. The question in this case is whether our state’s automobile exception applies where police lawfully stop a moving…