No. 22-6026

Robert C. Stryker v. Wisconsin

Lower Court: Wisconsin
Docketed: 2022-11-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: computer-evidence computer-files criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure social-worker-patient-privilege social-worker-privilege state-court-review warrantless-search
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Privacy
Latest Conference: 2023-01-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Were the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when the contents of computer files held in evidence against him were revealed in warrantless searches?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED * Were the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when the contents of computer files held in evidence against him were revealed in warrantless searches? * Should federal courts reviewing state court decisions in criminal cases involving social : _ worker-patient privilege apply the federal social worker privilege first described in Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1 (1996), or should federal courts apply the state social workerpatient privilege? In petitioner's case, the state courts required a novel procedure to deny petitioner's claim that a computer file was subject to social worker-patient privilege under state law, finding petitioner's attorney was not ineffective for failing to seek its exclusion, and denying petitioner's motion to strike confidential information from the court record and publicly available documents. : ii

Docket Entries

2023-01-09
Petition DENIED.
2022-12-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/6/2023.
2022-12-07
Waiver of right of respondent Wisconsin to respond filed.
2022-11-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 9, 2022)

Attorneys

Robert C. Stryker
Robert C. Stryker — Petitioner
Robert C. Stryker — Petitioner
Wisconsin
Nicholas Schmidt DeSantisWisconsin Department of Justice, Respondent
Nicholas Schmidt DeSantisWisconsin Department of Justice, Respondent