State of Missouri v. Matthew S. Rouch

The State of Missouri brings this interlocutory appeal challenging an order issued in the Circuit Court of Nodaway County granting Matthew Rouch’s motion to suppress evidence discovered and seized as a result of the execution of a warrant to search his home. For the following reasons, the trial court’s ruling is affirmed.

On September 3, 2013, Northwest Missouri State University Police Chief Clarence Green, Jr. was interviewed over the telephone by a student reporter for a story for the Northwest Missourian newspaper. During the course of that interview, the reporter claimed that a faculty…