Court Opinion

ID: 9793113
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:42:42.014212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:13.076404
License: Public Domain

HASELTON, J.,
dissenting.
I cannot join in the “nonabandonment” aspect of Judge Armstrong’s dissent. See 160 Or App at 681-83 (Armstrong, J., dissenting). However, I agree that Morton is not materially distinguishable. Here, as in Morton, the unlawful arrest was the motivating cause of defendant’s abandonment of the drugs. That is, as in Morton, defendant abandoned drugs to forestall their inevitable discovery directly incident to the unlawful arrest. If defendant had kept the drugs, and they had been discovered during booking, there is no question that they would have been suppressed. I do not understand why or how under Morton the result here can, or should, be any different.
Brewer, J., joins in this dissent.