Chief Gideon Cody's troubles are just beginning.
”All electronic devices seized by police will be returned to the Marion County Record, said Bernie Rhodes, a Kansas City-based attorney for the Record who also represents The Star.
"'We have stopped the hemorrhaging,' Rhodes told The Star. 'But it does nothing about taking care of the damage that has already occurred from the violation of the First Amendment in the first place.'"
"Marion County [Prosecutor] Joel Ensey said he concluded that 'insufficient evidence' existed to establish a 'legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.'"
https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278300178.html
The front page of the Kansas City Star site is quite something today. Everything above the fold is a nightmare for the dime store stormtroopers in Marion County.