State v. Woodrome

MARK D. PFEIFFER, Judge.

This is a case addressing the reasonableness — or unreasonableness as it were — of one’s expectation of privacy in stolen property. Clinton Woodrome (“Woodrome”) appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of Bates County, Missouri (“trial court”), convicting him, after a jury trial, of three counts of receiving stolen property, § 570.080. On appeal, Woodrome claims that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence and then admitting evidence obtained in what Woo-drome argues was an unlawful search conducted without a search warrant and absent exigent…