No. 21-5898

Ernest Gabriel Verdugo v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-10-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: abandoned-address criminal-procedure fourth-amendment independent-access law-enforcement motel-room probable-cause residence residence-definition search-and-seizure
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-11-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect's 'residence' when they learn that he has abandoned his reported address and find him in the motel room with another individual, but they do not investigate whether he or the other individual rented the room or whether he has any independent access to it

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect’s “residence” when they learn that he has abandoned his reported address and find him in the motel room with another individual, but they do not investigate whether he or the other individual rented the room or whether he has any independent access to it. i Statement of

Docket Entries

2021-11-15
Petition DENIED.
2021-10-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
2021-10-21
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-10-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 4, 2021)

Attorneys

Ernest Verdugo
Joshua D. WeissOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
Joshua D. WeissOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent