State v. Brown

                                652

      Argued and submitted July 30, affirmed September 23, 2020


                  STATE OF OREGON,
                   Plaintiff-Respondent,
                             v.
               TYLER MICHAEL BROWN,
                   Defendant-Appellant.
               Lincoln County Circuit Court
                   18CR59273; A169722
                            

  Sheryl Bachart, Judge.
   Blake Dore argued the cause for appellant. Also on the
brief was Dore Law Firm, LLC.
   Robert M. Wilsey, Assistant Attorney General argued
the cause for respondent. Also on the brief were Ellen F.
Rosenblum, Attorney General, and Benjamin Gutman,
Solicitor General.
  Before DeHoog, Presiding Judge, and Mooney, Judge, and
Hadlock, Judge pro tempore.
  PER CURIAM
  Affirmed.
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(2020)                            653

        PER CURIAM
         Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for
criminal driving while suspended or revoked, ORS 811.182(4)
(2017), amended by Or Laws 2018, ch 76, § 13, and raises
three assignments of error. We reject his first two assignments without further discussion. In his third assignment of
error, defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained after a sheriff’s deputy “ran the plate” of the truck defendant was driving while both were in line at a restaurant drive-through.
Defendant argued that the deputy’s random running of the
license plate was a warrantless search unsupported by probable cause, and, consequently, there was no “lawful cause” to
stop defendant. The trial court denied the motion, relying on
State v. Davis, 

, 

 (2010),
aff’d by an equally divided court, 

, 

(2013), which held, under similar facts, that a law enforcement officer’s query of DMV records without individualized
suspicion was not a search under Article I, section 9, of the
Oregon Constitution.
         On appeal, defendant does not dispute that Davis
controls, but urges us to overrule Davis “in light of changing technology and law enforcement practices in the intervening years.” Defendant has not persuaded us that, on
this record, Davis is “plainly wrong,” as he must for us to
overrule that existing precedent. State v. Civil, 

, 

 (2017) (explaining that we will only
overturn precedent where it is “ ‘plainly wrong,’ a rigorous
standard grounded in presumptive fidelity to stare decisis”).
Accordingly, we conclude that the trial court did not err in
denying defendant’s suppression motion.
        Affirmed.