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LEGAL BRIEFS:
In August, the Oregon Court of Appeals decided that a man who was searched after a traffic stop for failure to use a turn signal did not have his rights violated because police discovered an outstanding warrant on him while he was being detained for 30 minutes (Oregonian, August 19).
The Court of Appeals also ruled that a locked bathroom is off-limits to police without a warrant after Portland Officer Ryan Albertson forced his way into a public restroom (using a key) to seize a drug pipe from a man in 2010 (Oregonian, September 26). So, some privacy rights do remain sacrosanct in this country, or at least this state.
The same Court of Appeals sided with a 12 year old boy who confessed after two plain clothes detectives questioned him in an interview room at his alternative school for one and a half hours, stating that the officers had made him feel compelled to comply even though he could have remained silent (Associated Press, October 30).
Finally, the Appeals Court said that a man who had been stopped for running a red light in Marion County, then was blocked from driving away by the officer, should not have been subjected to the subsequent search that turned up heroin. Once the officer told the man he could go, he created an "unlawful extension" of the stop by blocking him in (Associated Press, November 17). |
January, 2014
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People's Police Report
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