Opinion

State v. Musser

  • 356 Or. 148
  • 335 P.3d 814
  • 2013 Ore. LEXIS 1090
Court
Oregon Supreme Court
Filed
Aug 28, 2014
Status
Published
Author
Baldwin
On the bench
Balmer, Walters, Baldwin, Brewer
Cited by
30 cases
Authority
More cited than 11.5%

explaining that officer’s inquiries about “various possible crimes” showed the officer “taking advantage of that misconduct in a way that likely had an effect on [the] defendant’s decision to consent”

How later courts described this case

  • explaining that officer’s inquiries about “various possible crimes” showed the officer “taking advantage of that misconduct in a way that likely had an effect on [the] defendant’s decision to consent”
  • concluding that there was exploitation, in part, “because the officer pursued several lines of inquiry ‘spurred by his observations of the contents of defendant’s purse during the unlawful seizure”'
  • observing that “there was not simply ‘but for’ causation — -unlawful police conduct and then a request for consent” — where the unlawful police conduct “led directly” to the events ultimately resulting in the consent to search
  • holding that evidence should have been suppressed where unlawful conduct led directly to observation that led to request to search

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

BALDWIN, J.,

specially concurring.

I concur in the judgment of the court but, for the reasons I explained in my dissenting opinion in State v. Unger, 356 Or 59, 133 , 333 P3d 1009 (2014) (Baldwin, J., dissenting), I do not join the majority’s reasoning in this case.

This is a copy of a public record, reproduced as it was published. It is not legal advice, and it may not be the version a court would rely on. Check the official source before you cite it.

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