Opinion
991400; A109294
Submitted on record and briefs April 6, 2001.
Filed: June 6, 2001
Appeal from Circuit Court, Clatsop County, Paula BROWNHILL, Judge.
Rankin Johnson IV, Deputy Public Defender, filed the brief for appellant. With him on the brief was David E. Groom, Public Defender.
Douglas F. Zier, Assistant Attorney General, filed the brief for respondent. With him on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General.
Before EDMONDS, Presiding Judge, and ARMSTRONG and KISTLER, Judges.
PER CURIAM
Reversed and remanded.
Defendant appeals from his conviction for possession of a controlled substance, assigning error to the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress. The state implicitly concedes that the officers who arrested defendant on two outstanding warrants did not have grounds to search a closed, opaque candy bag that they found on defendant's person at the time of the arrest. The state explicitly concedes that the inventory policies at the jail where the officers took defendant after the arrest did not satisfy the requirements of State v. Atkinson, 298 Or. 1, 668 P.2d 832 (1984), and subsequent cases. Thus, the trial court erred in finding that a search of the bag at the time of booking would have led inevitably to the discovery of the methamphetamine that the bag contained. The court should have granted defendant's motion to suppress.
After the court denied the motion, defendant entered a conditional plea of guilty, reserving his right to appeal, a procedure that is now proper under ORS 135.335(3). Or. Laws 1999, ch 134, § 1.
Reversed and remanded.