State v. Morgan

Defendant appeals his conviction for being an ex-convict in possession of a firearm. ORS 166.270. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress tangible and testimonial evidence. He argues that, because he was arrested without probable cause, the evidence was the fruit of an unlawful arrest and should have been suppressed. We reverse.

Officer Olsen was the only witness at the hearing on the motion to suppress. He testified that, on July 12,1989, the police received a tip from an identified informer that “there was possibly a person taking a person from a car or putting…