State v. Wilkinson

Defendant appeals from his conviction for first-degree burglary. ORS 164.225. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized during a warrantless search of his car. We review for errors of law, ORS 138.220, and affirm.

The facts are not in dispute. For several weeks before defendant’s arrest, there had been an unusually high number of burglaries of occupied houses in a rural area of southern Benton County. The burglaries generally occurred between 11:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. Based on information supplied by victims and gathered through police…