ST. LOUIS (AP) - A judge is accusing the St. Louis prosecutor's office of ``playing games'' for fighting a search warrant of her files that is part of a perjury investigation related to last year's criminal case against former Gov. Eric Greitens.Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner filed a motion Monday calling the warrant an overly broad ``fishing expedition.''The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Judge Michael Mullen, in a hearing Tuesday, accused Gardner's office of impeding a grand jury investigation into alleged perjury by one of her former investigators, William Tisaby.
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Chief Trial Assistant Rachel Smith denied any effort to hinder the investigation.Gardner charged Greitens with invasion of privacy in February 2018, alleging he took a semi-nude photo of a woman during a 2015 extramarital affair, without consent.Charges were eventually dropped, but Greitens resigned in June.Mullen says he'll decide next week whether Gardner must comply with the search warrant.
