Legal Opinion
State v. Ritter
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided May 7, 1991No. 59290PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRANE, Judge.
The state appeals pursuant to § 547.200 RSMo 1986 from the order of the trial court granting the motion of defendant Roger Charles Ritter to suppress evidence seized from a parked automobile owned by a third party. We reverse.
The facts are uncontested. While Officer Mike Turner of the Union, Missouri, police department was on routine patrol, he noticed the defendant standing in front of a parked vehicle located on a corner parking lot. Turner was aware that there was a warrant for defendant’s arrest for failing to appear on a charge of writing bad checks. Turner also knew that…
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