State v. Laudermilk

This is a companion case to State v. Evans, 21 Or App 122, 533 P2d 1392 (1975). Defendant in the present case was convicted of robbery in the first degree. In a separate trial, Evans was convicted of participation in the same robbery. The background facts are contained in our opinion in State v. Evans, supra.

Defendant Laudermilk here argues that the second search of Evans’s apartment was the fruit of police illegality in conducting a previous search of the premises, and that Laudermilk’s confession, made subsequent to the second search, was similarly tainted. Defendant argues that both the…