State of Missouri v. James Christopher Bales

SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI en banc STATE OF MISSOURI, ) Opinion issued August 31, 2021 ) Appellant, ) ) v. ) No. SC98376 ) JAMES CHRISTOPHER BALES, ) ) Respondent. ) APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF PULASKI COUNTY The Honorable John Beger, Judge The state appeals the circuit court’s order sustaining James Bales’s motion to suppress evidence – a cell phone and electronic data stored on that cell phone – purportedly obtained pursuant to the execution of a search warrant. The circuit court found the search warrant failed to describe with sufficient particularity the thing to be seized and was so…