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Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1/16/2013

State v. Maciel

Citations

  • 254 Or. App. 530
  • 295 P.3d 145
  • 2013 WL 174392
  • 2013 Ore. App. LEXIS 12

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  • noting that a driver’s change in demeanor could be ascribed to “the sudden realization that a mere traffic stop is escalating into a criminal investigation” and, therefore, according it “little weight”
  • noting that officer “was justified in continuing to detain defendant to investigate drug trafficking” for 35 minutes while a drug dog came to the scene “only if the detention was supported by reasonable suspicion of that crime”
  • declining to consider the presence of a “religious medallion” that an officer associated with narcotics trafficking
  • finding no connection between defendant’s “bizarre story” and the crime of drug trafficking
  • notwithstanding officer’s testimony that people engaged in criminal enterprises often use prepaid cellular phones, the presence of two prepaid cellular phones carried little weight because such phones can be easily lawfully acquired by criminals and noncriminals alike
  • according little weight to the defendant’s change in demeanor after the officer asked about drugs, because “that change in demeanor could be ascribed to any number of things,” including “the sudden realization that a mere traffic stop is escalating into a criminal investigation”

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Judges: Armstrong, Duncan, Haselton

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