State v. Manss

Defendant appeals her conviction for possession of a controlled substance. ORS 475.992. She assigns error to the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress evidence obtained in a warrantless seizure. We reverse and remand.

On the evening of July 29, 1987, three teenage boys went to the Grants Pass police station to report that a man had just approached them and offered to sell them drugs. They had refused the offer. They described the man and his location and told the dispatcher’s clerk that, after the attempted sale, the man had crossed the street and joined a group composed of two other…