Where a defendant in a child-pornography case challenged the admission of evidence found on his phone, the search warrant application established probable cause to believe that evidence would be found on the defendant’s electronic devices inside his home, including his ...

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Where an appellant brought an action against deputies and a sheriff for unreasonable search and seizure after the defendants entered his property after a tip about a stolen vehicle, the deputies were entitled to qualified immunity since reasonable officers under ...

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Where a defendant in a child-pornography case moved to suppress evidence uncovered when police searched a home he shared with his parents, and the district court denied the motion without a hearing, the warrant lacked probable cause but fell within ...

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Where a defendant challenged the denial of a motion to suppress in a child-pornography case, the officers’ reliance on the search warrant was objectively reasonable despite any potential shortcomings in the warrant application, and the good-faith exception to the exclusionary ...

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Where appellant challenged the adverse judgment in his action raising constitutional and state law claims, the district court properly found that the appellant failed to state claims for abuse of process, fraud, negligent misrepresentation or conspiracy, and the Fourth Amendment ...

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Where a defendant, who was convicted of conspiring to defraud the country and assisting in the filing of a false tax return, challenged the denial of his motion to suppress, probable cause existed to support a warrant to search the ...

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Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband’s corpse in a freezer inside her Joplin home, where it may have been stored for nearly a year. Barbara Watters, 67, of Joplin, was charged Wednesday with abandonment of a ...

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Where a defendant sought to suppress evidence obtained after an alleged violation of the knock-and-announce rule under the Fourth Amendment, the alleged violation of the knock-and-announce rule had nothing to do with the officers’ seizure of guns, drugs and cash ...

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Where a defendant in a drug-conspiracy case challenged the validity of the search-warrant application, the challenge failed because the facts set forth supported probable cause, and the judgment is affirmed because the defendant’s motion to dismiss for speedy-trial violations failed ...

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U.S. v. Houck (MLW No. 71616/Case No. 17-3045 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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State v. Douglass (MLW No. 71415/Case No. SC95719 – 51 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Breckenridge, J.; Draper, Russell and Stith, JJ., concur; Fischer, C.J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Wilson, J., concurs in opinion of Fischer, C.J.; Powell, J., not participating)

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