State v. Fleetwood

Defendant seeks review of a decision of the Court of Appeals that reversed the trial court’s order suppressing evidence obtained through police use of an electronic listening device. State v. Fleetwood, 127 Or App 558, 872 P2d 998 (1994). Defendant argues that Oregon law did not authorize the police to intercept and record the communications involved here and that, as a consequence, Oregon statutes required the trial court to suppress the evidence of those communications. We quote below the statutes that pertain to that argument. Defendant also argues that the police conduct here was a search…