State v. Miller

Defendant was convicted on two counts of arson in the first degree and one count of criminal mischief in the first degree for bombing a public restroom. He appeals, assigning error to the trial court’s failure to suppress evidence seized under a search warrant following his allegedly illegal arrest. He maintains that the arrest tainted the subsequent search warrant.

On April 22, 1980, the Portland Police Bureau received a phone call from a person claiming that he planned to detonate a bomb somewhere in downtown Portland the following day and would call again before exploding it. The call was…