State v. Bray

HASELTON, S. J.

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction of one count of unlawful possession of methamphetamine, ORS 475.894, and one count of felon in possession of a restricted weapon (FIP), ORS 166.270, entered after a stipulated facts trial. He assigns error to the denial of a motion to suppress evidence of both of those offenses discovered following a traffic stop. Specifically, defendant contends, inter alia, that the predicate traffic stop was extended by a request to check his criminal history and that that extension was unlawful as neither occurring during an “unavoidable lull” in…