No. 20-7436

Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2021-03-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop
Key Terms:
Privacy
Latest Conference: 2021-05-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does a noncriminal traffic stop and subsequent observation through the window of a stopped vehicle revealing a cylindrical brown object give rise to probable cause to search a personal, reasonable expected zone of privacy?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED UNDER WHAT CARCUMSTANCES Does A NONCRimiAAL TRAFFIC STOP AND WHE SUBSEQUENT OBSERVATION THROUGH THE WinlDOW OF STOPPED VEHICLE REVEAL, ING A CYLINDRICAL BROWN UGARETTE Give RISE TO PROGABLE CAUSE ‘TO SEARCH A PERSONAL, REASONABLE EXPECTED Zone OF Privacy? DOES A TRIAL Supaqe Derarr From tis Oo HER ROLE AS A NEUTRAL AR@ITER BY EX PARTE ANP SULA SPONTE , AGT s, CALLING A WITNESS FoR WHE STATE PROSECUTOR AND @iFURCATING A HEARING, VIOLATES THE PETMONER’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF Lue RoCESS UNPER THE tb AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES consnvuTion ? a a

Docket Entries

2021-05-17
Petition DENIED.
2021-05-05
Waiver of right of respondent Florida to respond filed.
2021-04-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021.
2021-02-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 12, 2021)

Attorneys

Florida
Trisha Meggs PateOffice of the Attorney General Criminal Appeals Division Tallahassee, Respondent
Trisha Meggs PateOffice of the Attorney General Criminal Appeals Division Tallahassee, Respondent
Frederick Knight
Frederick Dale Knight — Petitioner
Frederick Dale Knight — Petitioner