State v. Newsted

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for unauthorized use of a vehicle, ORS 164.135, and theft in the second degree, ORS 164.045. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized during the execution of a search warrant, contending that the affidavit in support of the warrant did not provide probable cause for the issuance of the warrant. We conclude that a reasonable magistrate could have concluded that the facts in the supporting affidavit, combined with the inferences that reasonably could be drawn from those facts, established probable cause to…