State v. Lander

Defendant appeals his convictions for felon in possession of a firearm, ORS 166.270, and possession of a controlled substance, ORS 475.992. He assigns as error the trial court’s failure to suppress evidence seized from his hotel room.1 We affirm.

On the day in question, Salem Police Officer Kistner drove into the Traveler’s Inn Motel parking lot and, as was his custom, ran a check on the license plates of several of the cars in the lot. He discovered that one of the cars was registered to defendant, who was the subject of several outstanding arrest warrants. Kistner contacted the front desk of…