Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. DUSTIN ADAM LARK, Defendant-Appellant
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 2013-03-13
Citations: 255 Or. App. 631
Docket Number: 10C51364; A149079
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. DUSTIN ADAM LARK, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before Armstrong, Presiding Judge, and Nakamoto, Judge, and Egan, Judge.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 255
Pages: 631–632

Head Matter:
Submitted January 4,
reversed and remanded March 13, 2013
STATE OF OREGON, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. DUSTIN ADAM LARK, Defendant-Appellant.
Marion County Circuit Court
10C51364; A149079
298 P3d 66
Peter Gartlan, Chief Defender, and Kristin A. Carveth, Deputy Public Defender, Office of Public Defense Services, filed the brief for appellant.
Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, Anna M. Joyce, Solicitor General, and David B. Thompson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent.
Before Armstrong, Presiding Judge, and Nakamoto, Judge, and Egan, Judge.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Defendant appeals a judgment convicting him of one count of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school, ORS 475.892, assigning error to the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence discovered during a traffic stop. Defendant argues that the officer unlawfully extended the duration of the stop by asking questions unrelated to the traffic violation without independent reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. The state concedes the error, and we agree. See State v. Bertsch, 251 Or App 128, 133, 284 P3d 502 (2012) ("The extension of a traffic stop beyond an investigation into a traffic violation is unlawful unless it is supported by reasonable suspicion of criminal activity."). Accordingly, we reverse and remand.
Reversed and remanded.