State v. Chavez

We allowed review in this criminal case to address whether the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR) 1 grants to foreign nationals who have been arrested by state authorities a personal right to be told that they have the right to contact and communicate with their country’s consul and, if so, whether suppression of evidence is the appropriate remedy for a violation of that right. The trial court denied defendant’s motion to suppress, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. State v. Chavez, 172 Or App 326, 19 P3d 923 (2001). We now conclude that defendant failed to preserve the argument…