State v. Oakes

Defendant is charged with attempting to elude a police officer. ORS 811.540. 1 The state appeals the trial court’s order granting defendant’s pretrial motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of an allegedly unlawful traffic stop. We reverse and remand.

On March 21,2002, Officer Shawn Chase, a Coquille tribal police officer and deputy sheriff of Coos County, stopped defendant on a road in Coos County. Defendant was driving his vehicle and pulling an attached trailer. The trailer had no brake lights or license plate, and it obstructed the brake and turn signal lights on defendant’s car,…