Search Warrant

Jan 6, 2026

State’s high court reverses, remands interlocutory appeal centering on urine test

The Missouri Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling, finding probable cause supported a warrant for urine testing in a criminal sex abuse case.

May 8, 2020

Criminal Law: Search Warrant-Probable Cause-Restitution Order

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 […]

May 6, 2020

Civil Rights: Seizure-Search Warrant-Official Capacity Claim

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 […]

Apr 13, 2020

Criminal Law: Search Warrant-Good-Faith Exception

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 […]

Apr 13, 2020

Criminal Law: Search Warrant-Good-Faith Exception

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 […]

Mar 4, 2020

Civil Practice: Failure to State Claims-Stalking-Search Warrant

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 […]

Feb 17, 2020

Criminal Law: Search Warrant-Probable Cause-Sentencing Enhancements

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, […]

Nov 14, 2019

Missouri woman charged after husband’s body found in freezer

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, […]

Jul 2, 2019

Criminal Law: Knock-And-Announce Rule-Unlawful Entry-Search Warrant

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 […]

Nov 3, 2018

Criminal Law: Search Warrant Speedy Trial

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 […]

May 9, 2018

Criminal Law : Search Warrant – RV – ‘Vehicle’

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

Feb 14, 2018

Criminal Law : Search Warrant – Particularity – Severance

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)