Legal Opinion
State v. Widerstrom
Court of Appeals of Oregon
Decided September 25, 1991No. C88-10-37108; CA A61948PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*20DEITS, J.
Defendant appeals his conviction for possession of a controlled substance. ORS 475.992. He assigns error to the denial of his motion to suppress. We affirm.
On March 5,1988, defendant arrived at the Portland airport to take a flight to Spokane. At the airport, he passed through a security checkpoint on his way to his gate. The scanner detected an opaque metal container, large enough to hold explosives or a weapon, in his carry-on bag, and the security person asked him to open the container. When defendant complied, the security person saw that it contained white powder, a razor blade…
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