STATE v. RITZ

CC 11CR1068, SC S063292.

399 P.3d 421 (2017)

361 Or. 781

STATE of Oregon, Petitioner on Review, v. Randall Ray RITZ, Respondent on Review.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

August 10, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Smith , Deputy Solicitor General, Salem, argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioner on review. Also on the briefs was Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General.

Anne Fujita Munsey , Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent on review. Also on the brief was Ernest G. Lannet , Chief Defender, Office of Public Defense Services.

Before Balmer, Chief Justice, and Kistler, Walters, and Landau, Justices, and Brewer and Baldwin, Senior Justices pro tempore, and Tookey, Judge of the Court of Appeals, Justice pro tempore.


The parties in this case raise the issue of whether the natural dissipation of alcohol in a suspect's body creates such an emergency that police officers may enter a suspect's home without a warrant in order to secure the suspect's blood-alcohol evidence. Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution and the Fourth and Fourteenth...

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