No. 20-5850

Aaron Keith Avery v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: arbitrary-questioning border-patrol civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte programmatic-purpose united-states-v-martinez-fuerte
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Immigration Privacy
Latest Conference: 2020-11-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Border Patrol's unfettered and arbitrary questioning of those stopped at an immigration checkpoint to ferret out crime go beyond the limited programmatic purpose of such a checkpoint as set out by this Court in United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 543, 556-58?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Does the Border Patrol’s unfettered and arbitrary questioning of those stopped at an immigration checkpoint to ferret out crime go beyond the limited programmatic purpose of such a checkpoint as set out by this Court in United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 543, 556-58? i

Docket Entries

2020-11-09
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2020.
2020-10-14
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-09-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 30, 2020)

Attorneys

Aaron Avery
H. Michael SokolowFederal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent