State v. Sholedice

**148This case presents two questions. The first is whether a United States Postal Service (USPS) inspector seized a package in violation of the Oregon Constitution when she took the package out of a mail hamper and put it on the floor so that a drug-detection dog could sniff it. The second is whether another postal inspector seized the package when, after the dog had alerted to the package, he took it to the addressee's house and asked for consent to search it. Focusing on the first issue, the trial court ruled that no seizure had occurred because defendants had no constitutionally protected…