State v. Jones

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction for possession of cocaine, ORS 475.884, assigning error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress. Defendant argues that, although the incriminating evidence was obtained following a lawful traffic stop of a car in which he was a backseat passenger, it nonetheless derived from a subsequent unlawful seizure of his person in violation of Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution and the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In particular, he argues that a police officer stopped him without any suspicion of…