State of Missouri v. Glenn Valentine

GARY M. GAERTNER, JR., Judge.

Introduction

This is an interlocutory appeal in which the State of Missouri (State) appeals the trial court’s order granting Respondent Glenn Valentine’s (Defendant) motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant. The State argues that the trial court erred in determining that the probable cause supporting the search warrant was stale; and that regardless, the exception to the exclusionary rule applies here because the officers acted in good faith in executing the search warrant. We reverse.

Background

The State charged Defendant as a prior drug…