WARREN, Judge.
Pursuant to ORS 138.060(3), the state appeals the trial court's pretrial order suppressing evidence obtained through a warrantless search of defendant's purse. The state contends that the search, undertaken by a police officer to ascertain defendant's identity, was reasonable under the circumstances. We reverse and remand.
The only testimony at the hearing on the motion to suppress was that of Officer Pacheco, a police officer for the city of...
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