City of Portland v. Peterson

Defendant appeals her conviction for violation of a Portland city ordinance which prohibits loitering to solicit prostitution. She contends, first, that the trial court erred in denying her motion to suppress evidence, because the police had no reasonable suspicion on which to base stopping the car in which she was riding.

In the middle of the afternoon on April 3, 1980, Officer Wong, in plain clothes and driving a sports car along a busy northeast Portland street, observed defendant and a female companion, Julie Burr, standing at the corner of Northeast Union Avenue and Clackamas Street. He…