Court Opinion

ID: 9791556
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:13:40.485893+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:36.817180
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SCHWAB, C. J.,
specially concurring.
The question in this case is a constitutional one— the reasonableness of a series of searches under controlling constitutional standards. I am unable to join *49in the suggestion that a statutory duty to search is relevant to this constitutional question. Statutory authority does not take precedence over constitutional limitations. State v. Brothers, 4 Or App 253, 478 P2d 442 (1970).
On the constitutional question, I join the result reached, i.e., that the search was constitutionally reasonable, on the sole ground that defendant no longer had a sufficient objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the burned premises: the premises were not habitable, and had been boarded up by the owner; defendant was past due in his rent payments at the time of the fire, and made no rent payments thereafter; the owner of the premises had told defendant that his tenancy was at an end.