Criminal Law : Search Warrant – Exclusionary Rule – Good Faith

Where officers seized evidence such as BB guns and a video tape not covered by a search warrant and the warrant was invalid, the officers did not properly execute the warrant by seizing items outside the scope of the warrant, so the good-faith exception did not apply and the trial court properly used the exclusionary rule to suppress the evidence.

Judgment is affirmed.

State v. Lucas (MLW No. 67054/Case No. WD77088 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Gabbert, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Randolph County, Hayes, J. (Adam Stephen Rowley, Jefferson City, for appellant) (Samuel E. Buffaloe, Columbia, for respondent).

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