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State v. Brown

Citations

  • 721 P.2d 1357
  • 301 Or. 268
  • 1986 Ore. LEXIS 1453

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • announcing the former automobile exception to the warrant requirement of Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution
  • announcing a per se exception to the warrant requirement “provided (1) that the automobile is mobile at the time it is stopped by police or other govern- mental authority, and (2) that probable cause exists for the search of the vehicle”
  • officer may lawfully search stopped vehicle and its contents without warrant or consent if vehicle was mobile when stopped and if officer had probable cause
  • describing an “immediate” search of an automobile
  • defendant handcuffed during entire search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Jones, Linde, Lent

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