Court of Appeals of Oregon· 12/19/1984

State v. Messer

Citations

692 P.2d 713
71 Or. App. 506
1984 Ore. App. LEXIS 4697

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concluding that officer safety exception did not apply where officer and the defendant were engaged in mere conversation, because mere conversation \gives an officer no right to exercise any official authority\
holding that officer did not have reasonable suspicion that defendant was about to commit burglary where defendant and another person were sitting in a truck in a mall parking lot at 3:45 am and had a knife
stating that, because the officer did not have reasonable suspicion of burglary to stop defendant who was sitting in his vehicle outside a retail store at 3:45 a.m., the officer's choices were to engage in mere conversation or leave
explaining that not all “persons who sit in vehicles in parking lots at odd hours of the night or morning * * * render themselves suspect and subject to 46 State v. Miller being stopped by a passing police officer” (footnote omitted)
stop not justified where police officer saw only that two men were seated in a truck in a shopping mall parking lot and there was a knife between the two men lying on the seat

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Judges: Gillette, Van Hoomissen Young, Young

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