State v. Meyers

Defendant appeals from the judgment entered after his conviction for prostitution. ORS 167.007. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress statements he made after a stop for a traffic infraction. We review for errors of law, ORS 138.220, and reverse and remand.

On January 31, 1996, at 2:20 p.m., Officer Chinn was patrolling an area in Portland known for prostitution activity, and where he had made prostitution-related arrests in the past, when he saw defendant’s pickup truck parked in an unusual manner: The truck was parked in the parking lot of a duplex, tightly…