Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. ALLEN GENE BEASON, Petitioner
Court: Oregon Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1980-06-03
Citations: 289 Or. 215
Docket Number: TC 78-7263, CA 14345, SC 26661
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. ALLEN GENE BEASON, Petitioner.
Judges: PER CURIAM.
Reporter: Oregon Reports
Volume: 289
Pages: 215–223

Head Matter:
Argued and submitted February 6,
petition dismissed as improvidently allowed June 3, 1980
STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. ALLEN GENE BEASON, Petitioner.
(TC 78-7263, CA 14345, SC 26661)
611 P2d 1150
Thomas J. Crabtree, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Gary D. Babcock, Public Defender, Salem.
Christian W. Van Dyke, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With him On the brief were James A. Redden, Attorney General, and Walter L. Barrie, Solicitor General, Salem.
PER CURIAM.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We allowed defendant's petition for review in this case to consider an aspect of a question left open in our decision in State v. Carter/Dawson, 287 Or 479, 600 P2d 873 (1979). That aspect was the extent, if any, to which police could properly detain the driver or owner of a motor vehicle to make a license or registration check after the police have determined there was no basis in fact to charge the driver with the violation of traffic laws for which the "traffic stop" had been made. We have discovered that the record of this case makes it an inappropriate one to explore that aspect of the law; therefore, we now view the petition for review as having been improvidently allowed. It follows that we order the petition dismissed on that basis. Day v. SAIF, 288 Or 77, 602 P2d 258 (1979); Fitch v. Public Welfare Div., 279 Or 297, 567 P2d 117 (1977).