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State v. Sargent

Citations

  • 918 P.2d 819
  • 323 Or. 455
  • 1996 Ore. LEXIS 58

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that when no item from a search warrant was tainted by potentially trespassory conduct, there is no need to suppress the evidence
  • holding that police were entitled to seize evidence of a crime that was in plain view of the place they were otherwise legally entitled to be by virtue of an arrest warrant
  • noting that evidence is admissible under the “plain view” doctrine when intrusion is valid and it is immediately apparent that items are incriminating
  • stating that “the intrusion must be valid and it must be immediately apparent that the items [seized] are crime evidence”
  • evidence not subject to suppression under Article I, section 9, if no causal connection between evidence sought to be suppressed and unlawful police conduct
  • evidence not subject to suppression under Article I, section 9, if no causal connection between evidence sought to be suppressed and unlawful police conduct

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Judges: Carson, Durham, Fadeley, Gillette, Graber, Unis, Van Hoomissen

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