No. 21-5768

Jeffrey William Forget v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-09-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inventory-search k-9-unit passenger-seat-belt traffic-stop warrantless-search
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment DueProcess CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-11-05
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the traffic stop was unlawfully extended

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the traffic stop of Petitioner was not unlawfully extended in violation of the Fourth Amendment, where officers were engaged in drug interdiction surveillance and held a vehicle subject to a traffic stop in order to order a k-9 unit prior to investigating the passenger seat belt violation which was the cause of the traffic stop. 2. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by holding that the warrantless search of Petitioner’s items was permissible under the inventory search exception of the Fourth Amendment, where Petitioner was a passenger in a vehicle, no inventory of the items was created while the warrantless searches were being conducted, and where officers chose which searched items would be placed into police custody as evidence.

Docket Entries

2021-11-08
Petition DENIED.
2021-10-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/5/2021.
2021-10-19
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2021-09-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 25, 2021)

Attorneys

Jeffrey Forgot
Joseph Asher DavidowWillis & Davidow, LLC, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent