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State v. Newman

Citations

  • 637 P.2d 143
  • 292 Or. 216
  • 1981 Ore. LEXIS 1183

How courts have described this case

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  • police put the defendant in “civil hold,” rather than under arrest, when detaining her to take her to a detoxification center
  • where the action was held to be unreasonable as a matter of law
  • search of intoxicated person’s purse to obtain identification during transportation to detoxification center not justified under medical emergency exception, since no real emergency existed and public intoxication was not a crime, and illegal drugs found in purse properly suppressed
  • “The test of each step in the police procedure is reasonableness.”
  • warrantless search of purse in noncriminal, non-emergency situation held “unreasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Campbell, Tanzer, Tongue, Peterson

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