State v. Moya

Defendant appeals her conviction for possession of a controlled substance. ORS 475.992. She assigns as error the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress evidence, arguing that the police stopped her and searched her purse without reasonable suspicion that she had committed a crime. ORS 131.615. We reverse and remand.

At 6:00 p.m. Officers Barnes and Keating were patrolling the area near the Arlington Hotel in Portland’s Old Town in marked police cars. Barnes testified that the hotel is nicknamed “Heroin Hotel,” because it is an area of intense drug trade, and that persons who have…