The narrow issue in this case is: Can the police without a warrant in a noncriminal and nonemergency situation search the property of an intoxicated person for identification at the time the person is taken into custody?
On October 13, 1979, at about 5:30 a.m., Portland Police Officer Kenneth Pacheco saw an automobile parked in a no parking zone on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard.
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