State v. Stafford

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for possession and delivery of a Schedule II controlled substance. ORS 475.992. His single assignment of error is that the trial court should have granted his motion to suppress evidence of controlled substances discovered in a wadded up paper bag that he left in plain view on a stairway at the entry of a fourplex residence. The trial court concluded that the investigating officers violated no one’s privacy interests in entering the stairway and that defendant had abandoned the bag. We affirm.

The relevant facts are uncontroverted. Officers…