Court Opinion

ID: 9633752
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:58:47.694701+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:41.635094
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RIGGS, J.,
specially concurring.
The majority concludes that a stop occurs “when an officer’s vehicle blocks a vehicle in a manner that would prevent it from being driven away * * *.” 106 Or App at 309. I disagree that the conclusion applies to the facts of this case, because defendant had no intention of driving away.
In order for the position of the officer’s car to operate *311as a restraint sufficient to constitute a “stop,” the defendant must have been “prevented from continuing to his destination, or in some other way forced ‘to alter his course of conduct.’ ” State v. Porter, 38 Or App 169, 171, 589 P2d 1156 (1979). (Citation omitted.) Defendant was not prevented from continuing to his destination. His car was parked, and he gave no indication that he wished to move when the officer approached him and gestured for him to roll his window down. He told the officer that he was waiting for his wife to come and pick him up. The position of the officer’s car in no way forced defendant to alter his course of conduct, because he had no immediate intention of going anywhere. See State v. Cordray, 91 Or App 436, 755 P2d 735 (1988). Accordingly, no stop occurred.