Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Appellant, v. RICHARD EDISON ROYER, Respondent
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1984-06-06
Citations: 68 Or. App. 478
Docket Number: J81-2678; CA A25227
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Appellant, v. RICHARD EDISON ROYER, Respondent.
Judges: Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Warren and Rossman, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 68
Pages: 478–480

Head Matter:
Submitted on record and brief March 10,
reversed and remanded June 6, 1984
STATE OF OREGON, Appellant, v. RICHARD EDISON ROYER, Respondent.
(J81-2678; CA A25227)
682 P2d 283
Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, William F. Gary, Solicitor General, and Stephen F. Peifer, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, filed the brief for appellant.
James McMillin, Roseburg, waived appearance for respondent.
Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Warren and Rossman, Judges.
BUTTLER, P. J.

Opinion:
BUTTLER, P. J.
The state appeals an order suppressing evidence seized following a search pursuant to a warrant authorizing the search of defendant's residence and adjacent outbuildings. The trial court held that the affidavit in support of the warrant was insufficient to authorize an extension of the search beyond the marijuana plants seen growing on defendant's premises.
The affidavit here is substantially the same as that involved in State v. Anspach, 68 Or App 164, 682 P2d 786 (1984), with two exceptions: (1) the affidavit states that the affiant identified growing marijuana planted "in a tree line which is located west of two brown-roof structures, which appeared to be a residence and a garage;" (2) the photograph taken by the affiant, attached and incorporated as part of the affidavit, confirms that the plants are in a long row and shows that the proximity of the plants to the residence makes it probable that the residents were aware of their presence. The surveyor's aerial photograph, appended to and incorporated in the affidavit, indicates that there are no buildings of any kind within the large area shown west of defendant's residence.
We held in Anspach that an affidavit, in order to support a warrant to search a residence or outbuilding, must fulfill two requirements, the first of which is that it must set forth objective observations that would permit a disinterested magistrate to conclude that there is probable cause to believe that the person residing on the premises has some relationship to the plants. The affidavit here, together with the appended photographs, fulfills the first requirement.
The second requirement set forth in Anspach is that, in order to justify a search of buildings, the affidavit must contain additional facts to support probable cause to believe that marijuana or certain kinds of implements of cultivation or paraphernalia for processing or sale of marijuana are probably in the building to be searched. That requirement is met here by the affiant's statement based on his training and experience.
Reversed and remanded for trial.