No. 21-6824

Dwight Frederick Barnes v. United States

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-01-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment geolocation-warrant good-faith-doctrine nexus search-and-seizure warrant-requirements warrantless-searches
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure Privacy
Latest Conference: 2022-02-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the listed crime and location as evidence of that crime and lacks a nexus finding in the warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment, based on legal criteria that justify warrantless searches?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW This petition presents the following questions: 1. Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the listed crime and location as evidence of that crime and lacks a nexus finding in the warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment, based on legal criteria that justify warrantless searches? 2. Do warrants for historic geolocation information that are not limited to particular time periods for which location would be evidence of the target offense constitute general warrants to which the good faith doctrine cannot apply? i

Docket Entries

2022-02-22
Petition DENIED.
2022-01-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
2022-01-18
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2021-12-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 11, 2022)

Attorneys

Dwight Frederick Barnes
Virginia Guadalupe VillaLaw Office of Virginia G. Villa, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent