Marvin Slyter’s attorney, Thomas Bath, moved to suppress evidence seized from all subsequent search warrants in the nearly five-year-old felony theft of farm equipment case, setting up yet another hearing in August, on the new motions . The move came after Anderson County District Court Judge Eric Godderz ruled in favor of County Attorney Elizabeth Oliver’s rebuttal to Bath’s initial motion, which proposed evidence gained during a search of Slyter’s property was improper. Bath claimed Sheriff’s Office Investigator, Wes McClain, exceeded the authority of a search warrant when he surveyed other areas of Slyter’s property and found additional pieces of farm equipment that matched descriptions of others reported stolen when he served the warrant in November 2019.
The 61-year-old Slyter, of Garnett, was arraigned in August 2023 after more than a two-year investigation of theft of numerous pieces of farm equipment in a multi-county investigation. A hearing was set for August 7th at 10:00 in the morning for Bath’s additional motions to suppress.
