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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. RONALD ANDREW ARCHEY

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 7, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Edwin Alan Groves, Jr., Assistant Attorney General; and C. Craig Northcott, District Attorney General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

Attorneys 2: Andrew Justice, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for the appellee, Ronald Andrew Archey.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

In this interlocutory appeal, the State asks us to review the trial court’s pretrial suppression of data from the Defendant’s cell phone. Before searching the cell phone, law enforcement officers sought and obtained a search warrant, which a magistrate authorized based upon its finding that probable cause existed to support the search warrant. The Defendant filed a motion to suppress the evidence found on the phone, and the trial court granted the motion. The State asked for, and the trial court granted, an interlocutory appeal to review the trial court’s ruling on the motion. After review, we reverse the trial court’s order granting the Defendant’s motion to suppress.

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