No. 25-5431

Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana

Lower Court: Indiana
Docketed: 2025-08-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

Under the Fourth Amendment, is there a sufficient nexus to support probable cause to search a citizen's house when a drug dealer briefly parks near the citizen's house and nobody is observed to go in or out of the citizen's house or interact with the drug dealer in any way?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a brief, unverified proximity of a drug dealer to a citizen's residence, without any observed interaction, constitutes sufficient probable cause for a Fourth Amendment search warrant

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-09-10
Waiver of right of respondent State of Indiana to respond filed.
2025-07-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 22, 2025)

Attorneys

Jason C. Matlock
Jason Cornell Matlock — Petitioner
State of Indiana
James Allen BartaOffice of the Indiana Attorney General, Respondent