State v. Cotter/Ray

Defendants were convicted of possession of a controlled substance. ORS 475.992. In this consolidated appeal, they assign error to the trial court’s denial of their motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant for their home. We reverse.

Defendants argue that the affidavit supporting the search warrant did not establish probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime would be found at their home. The affidavit described a cocaine distribution network in Salem. A PEN register that police installed on the telephone of a secondary distributor showed that, over the course of a…