State v. Berry

ROBERTSON, Judge.

An anonymous caller informed Deputy Don Perry of the Cape Girardeau sheriff’s office of a quantity of marijuana at the home of Melissa and Jimmy Berry. The tip described with particularity the outside of the Berry home and indicated personal knowledge of the existence of the marijuana in the Berry home. The issue in this case is whether the informant’s tip, together with Deputy Perry’s subsequent corroboration of the accuracy of the informant’s description of the Berry home, constitutes sufficient probable cause for a neutral magistrate to issue a search warrant, and for the…