No. 19-5868

William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al.

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment Privacy
Latest Conference: 2019-11-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his business work area of his mother and father's basement thereby ignoring this Court's prior decision cited in hundreds of cases in the past

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court’s finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his business work area of his mother and father’s basement thereby ignoring this Court’s prior decision cited in hundreds of cases in the past. 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court intentionally ignored the law in favor of the police similar to what the Fifth Circuit did prior to this Court’s decision in Tolan v. Cotton. .

Docket Entries

2019-11-04
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2019.
2019-10-16
Reply of petitioner William C. Burgess filed. (Distributed)
2019-10-02
Brief of respondent Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. in opposition filed.
2019-09-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 9, 2019)

Attorneys

Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al.
David S. WiglerOffice of Knox County Law Director, Respondent
David S. WiglerOffice of Knox County Law Director, Respondent
William C. Burgess
William Charles Burgess — Petitioner
William Charles Burgess — Petitioner