State v. Langston

Defendant appeals his conviction for two counts of identity theft, ORS 165.800, and assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress. Defendant contends that he was unlawfully stopped by police officers without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity and that evidence obtained after that stop should be suppressed because it was derived from the preceding illegality. We review for errors of law, State v. Ehly, 317 Or 66, 74-75, 854 P2d 421 (1993), and affirm.

On March 12, 2005, Portland Police Officers Stensgaard and Leitgeb were sitting in their parked patrol car across…