No. 19-8509

Joaquin Gonzales v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2020-05-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: alpr automated-license-plate-reader evidence-standard fourth-amendment license-plate physical-movements reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-06-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did a detective's warrantless search of an ALPR database for images and locations of Petitioner's license plate violate petitioner's Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented is: Did a detective’s warrantless search of an ALPR database for images and locations of Petitioner’s license plate violate petitioner’s Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements? [The Second Question] In Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 23 (1967) the Court stated that when deciding whether the erroneous admission of evidence is harmless error, “[t]he question is whether there is a reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of might have contributed to the conviction.” The Second Question Presented is: Did the California Court of Appeal apply a standard below the one adopted by this Court in Chapman when it concluded that any constitutional error in admitting the ALPR evidence to show what license plates were on Petitioner’s car at the time of an alleged shooting was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, because there was “other evidence” to establish what plates were on Petitioner’s car?

Docket Entries

2020-06-22
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2020.
2020-05-29
Waiver of right of respondent California to respond filed.
2020-05-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 22, 2020)

Attorneys

Joaquin Gonzales
Walter K. Pyle — Petitioner
State of California
Donna Marie ProvenzanoOffice of the California Attorney General, Respondent