| 25-5499 |
Timothy Alexander v. New York |
New York |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct |
Whether the exclusionary rule applies when police violate a suspect's Constitutional Rights multiple times during a continuous interrogation, and whet… |
| 24-7519 |
Frederick S. Koger v. Charles E. Kleidon, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dismissal judicial-procedure mental-health perjury police-misconduct statute-of-limitations |
Whether the petitioner's post-traumatic stress disorder and alleged judicial failure to consider case merits justify dismissal with prejudice, and whe… |
| 24A1283 |
Demetric Simon v. Officer Keith Gladstone, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice police-misconduct statute-of-limitations |
Whether the statute of limitations for a civil rights claim should be equitably tolled when key evidence of police misconduct was fraudulently conceal… |
| 24-7388 |
Adeoye O. Adebowale v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-record due-process evidence-fabrication law-enforcement police-misconduct |
Whether fabricated criminal arrest records created through police misconduct violate a defendant's constitutional rights to due process and fair adjud… |
| 24-7184 |
Tricia Liu v. Louie Angel David Feria |
California |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct restraining-order warrantless-entry |
Whether the warrantless entry by El Monte Police Department officers into Petitioner's property violated the Fourth Amendment, and whether the restrai… |
| 24-962 |
Autumn Adams v. Kevin Gugliano, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
|
bodily-injury civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment official-immunity police-misconduct |
Whether officers who pull a compliant citizen to the ground causing serious injury violate the Fourth Amendment and whether such malicious actions are… |
| 24-892 |
Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct |
Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries? |
| 24-198 |
Michigan v. Floyd Russell Galloway, Jr. |
Michigan |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
deterrence-doctrine evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception police-misconduct prosecutorial-responsibility |
Is exclusion of reliable, probative evidence of guilt warranted to deter an outside officer's misconduct where there are other deterrents that do not … |
| 24-176 |
Richard William Douglas, Jr., et al. v. William Joseph Kalanta, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-19 |
Denied |
|
court-procedure death-investigation organized-crime police-misconduct rico-violations statutory-standing |
Whether the Modesto Police Department can ignore evidence in a suspicious death investigation and potentially commit perjury in court proceedings |
| 24-5056 |
Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1299 |
Ade Olumide v. Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process mandatory-decertification open-court open-government police-misconduct press-freedom risk-of-harm transparency |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7098 |
Jeffrey Rivard v. Town of Brattleboro, Vermont |
Vermont |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure consolidation joinder negligence police-misconduct standing supreme-court-review |
whether-vermont-civil-procedure-rules-were-properly-applied |
| 23-6810 |
Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion |
Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel |
| 23-6356 |
Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge |
Question not identified |
| 23-6270 |
Tony French v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence police-misconduct property-rights search-and-seizure self-defense state-action vehicle-destruction vehicle-seizure |
Were the petitioner's due process rights violated when the Pierce County Sheriff's Department caused the loss and destruction of the vehicle the petit… |
| 23-636 |
Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-confession false-confessions habeas-corpus police-coercion police-misconduct undercover-operation wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions |
Should this Court summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit for failing to address petitioner's preserved claim that his conviction was premised on a confes… |
| 23-611 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity |
| 23-5953 |
Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the district court's decision was erroneous |
| 23-426 |
Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether the Petitioner pled sufficient facts to support his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against Respondent Jonathan Henderson |
| 23-335 |
Kansas v. Jeremy A. Cline |
Kansas |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment adequate-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule lawful-seizure police-misconduct remedies |
Does the exclusionary rule apply to suppress evidence where a court has found the use of excessive force in the execution of an otherwise lawful seizu… |
| 23-5475 |
Elmer Wayne Zahn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
color-of-authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gross-negligence police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard warrant-database warrant-system |
Does police misconduct in maintaining an inaccurate warrant database violate the Fourth Amendment? |
| 23-5371 |
Judith Tompson v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
body-camera-evidence due-process fair-trial harmless-error legal-licensing police-misconduct police-prosecution privacy-rights rsa-105-d:2 statutory-violation |
whether-nh-supreme-court-should-allow-nh-district-court-judge-to-prosecute-cases |
| 23-5372 |
Larry David Davis v. Amy Jackson Douglas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-jurisdiction police-misconduct statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
whether-a-public-defender-has-an-ethical-duty-to-investigate-and-challenge-the-prosecution's-case |
| 23-5204 |
Larry David Davis v. Anna Catherine Cargile, Prosecutor, Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-filing criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure statutory-provisions |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-5196 |
James Calvin Massey v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff |
Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act—even one that is petty, predictable, and uncharged—is always an i… |
| 23-5040 |
Brala Beverly v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. |
California |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights demurrer due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay police-misconduct police-report state-court-procedure |
Is it a violation of due process under the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution for courts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit by demurrer base… |
| 22-7787 |
Noel K. Bango v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rights police-misconduct police-reports sexual-battery speedy-trial tainted-evidence trial-procedure |
DNA-collection-timeline |
| 22-7602 |
James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether officers can lie about probable cause to obtain a warrant and search a vehicle without consent |
| 22-7474 |
Quinton Markis Cuthbertson, aka Quinton Marquis Cuthbertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-provocation spoliation subterfuge suppression-hearing unreasonable-seizure |
Do police violate a person's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure when they provoke, through subterfuge and intimidation, a person to … |
| 22-7411 |
Mario Sims v. Pete Buttigieg, et al. |
Indiana |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights deliberate-framing due-process evidence-planting federalism law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct state-constitutional-rights state-court-review wrongful-conviction |
Can the Indiana Supreme Court make an exception to the U.S. Constitution, Illinois Supreme Court, and 1st Circuit Court of Appeals decisions regarding… |
| 22-1003 |
Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether Petitioner's initial non-compliance followed by surrender permitted Respondent to reject the then-existing circumstances and slam Petitioner's… |
| 22-7275 |
Matthew Jones v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hate-crime judicial-branch law-enforcement police-misconduct standing takings |
Are the police in race, in business, in government authority, and in mass support still able to attempt to murder me decades later? |
| 22-7159 |
Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit |
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED |
| 22-933 |
Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force |
Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st… |
| 22-6991 |
Samuel Dickerson v. Ken Scarlett, Chief, Springfield Police Department, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection police-misconduct standing |
Does r+ violate the Federal Constitution under the 14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights |
| 22-6802 |
Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Should evidence obtained during an illegal police seizure be suppressed where the rights-violating officer testifies that the person in his custody co… |
| 22-6360 |
Tyrell Hart v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process false-confessions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the lower federal and state courts unreasonably applied this Court's holdings finding that Yart was not denied effective assistance of counsel… |
| 22-6197 |
Albert Bautista Guzman v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination |
Whether detectives investigating cases should practice integrity under the Due Process Clause of the 5th and 14th Amendments, preventing fabrication, … |
| 22-510 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detainee-death due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct police-restraint qualified-immunity |
Whether officers are entitled to qualified immunity when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and push into his back until… |
| 22-5749 |
Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-10-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing on the reliability of an out-of-court identification made through video technology un… |
| 22-293 |
Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case h… |
| 22-128 |
Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas |
Texas |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment |
Is the denial of a fair trial or appeal rights for a decorated police officer who was a victim of sexual assault and harassment repugnant to the Const… |
| 22-116 |
Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation |
Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1 violates the Contracts Clause |
| 21-8283 |
Sushila Gaur v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the police's use of a chokehold on an individual during an arrest violated the individual's constitutional rights |
| 21-1540 |
Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether qualified immunity protects government officials when no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exactly … |
| 21-7991 |
Mario Mandell Moore v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection identification-procedure identification-procedures police-misconduct show-up-identification show-up-identifications writ-of-certiorari |
Whether petitioner is entitled to a writ of certiorari where Michigan has denied him due process, equal protection and ignored the dictates of this Co… |
| 21-7964 |
Estevan Saucedo v. California |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics |
Was Appellant's Confession Admissible Since He Was Coerced by Illegal Police Tactics? |
| 21-7780 |
Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California |
California |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability |
Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose exculpatory and impeachment evidence related to a police officer's prior criminal conduct violates the defe… |
| 21-7753 |
Levi Miller v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant |
Whether the proper remedy for a Franks v. Delaware violation is to purge misleading statements or supplement the affidavit with omitted information |
| 21-7508 |
Draven Greene v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles |
| 21-7412 |
Martin Robinson v. Shirley Strickland Saffold, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct police-misconduct standing |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the trial court failed to appoint counsel, denied formal complaints, and dismissed the … |
| 21-7313 |
Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly… |
| 21-7281 |
Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process police-misconduct probable-cause unlawful-arrest |
Whether police violated the Fourth Amendment by arresting the petitioner without probable cause |
| 21-1104 |
John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity for a police officer who utilized known false statements to ensure the… |
| 21-6990 |
Roger D. Roberts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-standard habeas-corpus informant-credibility police-misconduct search-and-seizure state-court-review |
Whether the prosecutor's use of evidence obtained from a confidential informant was lawful, where the informant's credibility was questionable |
| 21-6841 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause |
Whether 42 USC 1983 can protect a law-abiding educated senior-citizen with disabilities from abduction (arrest) without probable-cause or warrant by a… |
| 21-6683 |
David M. Vines v. City of Black Diamond, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-without-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment free-speech police-misconduct warrantless-arrest warrantless-search whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether the State of Washington and the police have decided an important question of Federal law, namely the Fourth Amendment, e.g. arrest without a W… |
| 21-6563 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness |
Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's 'essential link' between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a 'mo… |
| 21-5968 |
Timothy Stemen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination |
Did law enforcement violate the petitioner's due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings |
| 21-5733 |
Eric Westry v. Victor Leon |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical-assault, threatening-behavior, physical-resistance, false-na… |
| 21-5734 |
Tony Lamar Vann v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing |
whether-police-can-plant-drugs-on-black-men |
| 21-5660 |
Kevin McBride v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-conviction police-misconduct presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence wrongful-conviction |
When fraudulent police reports deceive the lower court into a false conviction, shouldn't the fraud precede the false conviction and be overturned imm… |
| 21-5534 |
Omolara Makini, fka Mahogany J. Mignon, fka Timika Janelle Williams v. Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech police-misconduct standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims based on the evidence presented and whether the petitioner was denied a fair … |
| 21-5259 |
James Plas Sams v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
class-of-one contracts-clause due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus plea-agreement police-misconduct |
Question not identified |
| 21-5038 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 prohibit law enforcement officers from using excessive force against individuals who are handcuf… |
| 20-8390 |
Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena |
Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses |
| 20-8318 |
Jason C. Youker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment informant-distribution law-enforcement narcotics police-misconduct standing takings |
Do police violate the Fifth Amendment when providing narcotics to confidential informants? |
| 20-8244 |
Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief |
Question not identified |
| 20-1667 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black |
Ohio |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability |
Whether the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals committed plain error and the Ohio Supreme Court abused its discretion in denying review of this cas… |
| 20-1629 |
George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justificat… |
| 20-8061 |
Jermaine Davis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment administrative-law agency-adjudication civil-rights constitutional-interpretation custodial-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction miranda-rights police-misconduct property-rights |
Whether the proper procedural safeguards were provided to the petitioner in their request to remain silent and request for an attorney |
| 20-7827 |
Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia |
Maine |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture |
Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe… |
| 20-7651 |
Gonzalo Curiel v. California |
California |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the prosecution must prove that the alleged alternative police conduct was an ongoing legitimate investigation simultaneously occurring at the… |
| 20-7490 |
Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington |
Washington |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights commerce-clause due-process excessive-force false-charges interstate-commerce medical-cannabis police-misconduct qualified-immunity regulatory-burden state-licensing |
Whether it is legally permissible for police to use excessive force against a U.S. citizen committing no crimes, including shooting the person in the … |
| 20-7254 |
Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedent in concluding that petitioner's Brady-claim failed for lack of prejudice |
| 20-7098 |
Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure |
Whether the police officer must actively be pursuing a lawful means of obtaining evidence prior to the occurrence of the illegal misconduct under the … |
| 20-7110 |
David Falcon v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa alibi-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-hearing miranda-rights police-misconduct police-testimony right-to-counsel strickland-standard |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel |
| 20-6814 |
Rodney Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment family-home fourth-amendment parolee-search parolees police-misconduct privacy-rights samson-precedent search suspicionless-search warrantless-search |
Whether Illinois has lowered the bar of reasonableness for the search of parolees beyond this Court's holding in Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2… |
| 20-876 |
Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Should the qualified-immunity doctrine be abolished? |
| 20-877 |
Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit disregarded the summary judgment standard in Trinell King's case and improperly weighed the evidence in favor of the Whit… |
| 20-715 |
Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records |
whether-i-am-entitled-to-get-the-missing-records |
| 20-476 |
Rafael Martinez, et al. v. Bryheim Jamar Baskin |
New Jersey |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
|
42-u.s.c.a.-§-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement municipal-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Is the petitioner/Police Detective Rafael Martinez protected by qualified immunity in this action brought under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983? |
| 20-5918 |
Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Question not identified |
| 20-391 |
Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (21) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury |
Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre… |
| 20-392 |
Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police |
New Jersey |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar |
Termination-without-due-process |
| 20-5789 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Brian Caulfield, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanants? |
| 20-263 |
Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessive f… |
| 20-21 |
Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies? |
| 20-5048 |
Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression |
Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to threats by police? |
| 19-1416 |
Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory |
Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine |
| 19-8642 |
Christopher Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency false-evidence grand-jury police-misconduct robbery-identification standing suppression-hearing |
Why was I denied the right to subpoena Indianapolis Metro Detectives to refute their falsified record to the Grand Jury? |
| 19-8601 |
William Cornell Walker v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence false-testimony jury jury-composition peer-selection police-misconduct racial-bias |
Whether jurors twice your age can be considered your peers |
| 19-8362 |
Henry M. Mitchell, Jr. v. California |
California |
2020-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-destruction police-misconduct |
Whether the police may rely on unsubstantiated evidence to absolve them of bad faith intentional destruction of potentially useful evidence? |
| 19-8279 |
Jeffrey LaGasse v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto plea-bargaining police-misconduct severance |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by-pass the petitioner's 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment rights by denying his petition for Certificate of Appealabi… |
| 19-8208 |
Jerald Harris v. Richard Jennings, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-evidence police-misconduct reliability reliability-standard suggestive-circumstances |
Do the due process protections against unreliable identification evidence apply to all identifications made under suggestive circumstances, as held by… |
| 19-8069 |
Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const… |
| 19-7983 |
Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter involving a violation of the petitioner's Fourth Amendment ri… |
| 19-7906 |
Angello A. D. Osborne v. Peter Georgiades |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct stet unlawful-seizure |
Whether a 'STET' entry in a criminal prosecution precludes a defendant from recovering in a civil rights lawsuit against a police officer for fabricat… |
| 19-7768 |
Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities |
Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the jury… |
| 19-7790 |
Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force |
Whether a finding of 'objectively unreasonable excessive force' can be squared with a finding of qualified immunity |
| 19-1021 |
Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure |
Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant |
| 19-7534 |
Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's refusal to re-invest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider petitioner Scott's petition for writ of error co… |
| 19-7474 |
Rodney Banks v. California |
California |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights deliberation due-process evidence jurisdiction police-misconduct standing |
Whether my Miranda rights were violated |
| 19-7340 |
Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct |
Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u… |
| 19-7125 |
Shane R. Dodge, et ux. v. Bonners Ferry Police Department, et al. |
Idaho |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process idaho-supreme-court jurisdiction police-misconduct standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the Idaho Supreme Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against police officers for lack of standing and failure to timel… |
| 19-768 |
Sherard Martin v. Davis Marinez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorneys-fees civil-damages civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process economic-loss exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search illegal-stop incarceration police-misconduct standing |
Whether a plaintiff whose fourth amendment rights have been violated may be automatically denied damages for subsequent incarceration, attorneys fees,… |
| 19-6776 |
William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a remand of the case with instructions for the district court to reduce his or her sentence to time served and o… |
| 19-682 |
Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 19-6732 |
Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest false-evidence perjury police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct wrongful-conviction |
Whether state officials can use forged evidence to convict a U.S. citizen |
| 19-6585 |
Gelu Topa v. Almonte Kerbs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct probable-cause public-defender subpoena video-evidence |
Why was there no video of the arrest/incident? |
| 19-527 |
Paul Huskisson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
|
direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform |
Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule take into account the flagrancy and deliberate nature of the underlying Fourth Amendmen… |
| 19-485 |
Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule |
Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated |
| 19-5998 |
Eric Matthew Frein v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure harmless-error police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-integrity |
When the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached, do efforts by police and prosecutors to physically prevent counsel from intervening in his cli… |
| 19-326 |
Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure |
Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants who arrested the plaintiff p… |
| 19-5879 |
Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment cross-examination due-process evidence evidentiary-law impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel opioid-addiction police-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Can Florida's evidentiary laws constitutionally preclude impeachment evidence of opioid-addicted police officers? |
| 19-5736 |
Khalida Jalaly Ahadzadah v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County |
California |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct police-misconduct standing unlawful-arrest |
Whether the Concord Police Dept. violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by not providing proof of the alleged violations |
| 19-5525 |
Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law |
Is there an issue of judicial conspiracy and malice to overtly conceal offenses of police officers against honest citizens fit the description, for th… |
| 19-5475 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-5426 |
Leonard Stansberry v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing statutory-provisions takings writ wrongful-death |
Whether the cause and manner of death of Quastisa Ne was properly investigated and determined |
| 19-5284 |
Salvatore J. Moretti v. Bergen County Prosecutor's Office |
New Jersey |
2019-07-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process innocent-owner-defense jurisdictional-challenge opra police-misconduct political-corruption property-rights prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Has Appellant Proven Liability in the Respondents, Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Given the High-Profile Case Which Was Briefed by Deborah Poritz,… |
| 19-75 |
James Joseph Garner v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification police-misconduct standing suggestive-identification suggestive-setting trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Whether the Due Process Clause imposes any check on an eyewitness's identification of a criminal defendant in the typically suggestive setting of tria… |
| 19-5153 |
Christopher B. Ramirez v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-circumstance criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure jury-instructions notice photographic-array police-misconduct sixth-amendment suggestive-circumstances suggestive-identification |
Whether the trial court should have excluded Carlton Hritsco's identification of Christopher Ramirez |
| 19-5119 |
Johana Cabantac Arucan v. Cambridge East Healthcare Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection fourth-amendment police-misconduct summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a court can properly grant summary judgment by accepting an employer's disputed claim that a long-term, older female employee was a poor perfo… |
| 19-5065 |
Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence |
Is a petitioner provided due process of law when he is convicted on evidence insufficient to sustain a conviction when said evidence was wholly based … |
| 19-5034 |
Leland Dudley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction |
Was the petition (by) the state's attorney's office denied by the lower court, and did the lower court err in denying the petition to vacate the convi… |
| 18A1284 |
Ameer Xenos Flippin v. DC Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights judicial-review police-misconduct section-1983 |
Whether a municipality can dismiss a civil rights complaint alleging police misconduct and constitutional rights violations without providing substant… |
| 18-9032 |
Michael Slager v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter |
Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here—Officer Michael Slager's shootin… |
| 18-8770 |
Martin Rugamba v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights custom-law due-process free-speech misconduct police-misconduct retaliation standing |
Whether the municipal police in General, and other Security agencies violate Constitutional rights in retaliation for reporting their misconduct to FB… |
| 18-1287 |
Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure |
Whether the use of a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrendered by sitting on the ground with his hands up violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-1268 |
Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California |
California |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 |
Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Violen… |
| 18-7889 |
Ramon Romero v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the police officers' use of force against the petitioner was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-7611 |
Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority |
Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and … |
| 18-856 |
Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department |
Maryland |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations |
Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland? |
| 18-7223 |
Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation |
Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable |
| 18-825 |
Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that |
Whether the state-created danger doctrine is clearly established law |
| 18-7194 |
Brandon Lee Colbert v. California |
California |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson batson-challenge impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenge police-misconduct race-neutral race-neutral-reason sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury permit the reviewing court, at Batson's first stage, to conclude that a minority venire member's n… |
| 18-6970 |
Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices |
Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence |
| 18-698 |
Clement Reynolds v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment impeachment miranda miranda-rights police-interrogation police-misconduct self-incrimination |
Was Petitioner denied Due Process and protections against self-incrimination? |
| 18-6814 |
Patricia Ann Gerald, et al. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence free-speech police-misconduct standing |
Whether the officer's actions in refusing to allow the petitioners to view the video recording of the incident and denying their request for legal cou… |
| 18-6752 |
David McGuire v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies |
When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process … |
| 18-645 |
Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) requir… |
| 18-576 |
Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing |
Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet the proper civil remedy for an 'overcharge' prosecution? |
| 18-6422 |
Larry Norton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does a mistake of law by police in the stopping of a vehicle render the subsequent search violative of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-6392 |
Mohsen Khoshmood v. Eastern Market Management |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights damages disability-discrimination due-process false-arrest free-speech government-misconduct law-enforcement police-misconduct standing |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to $100 million in damages for violations of their constitutional rights, including due process, equal protection, … |
| 18-6318 |
Jeffrey Allen Ware v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Is the exclusionary rule properly limited solely to the purpose of deterring police misconduct or can/should it be used to enforce a clear constitutio… |
| 18-5564 |
Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video |
Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill… |
| 18-99 |
Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was 'unreasonable' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-67 |
James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. |
Kentucky |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger |
Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in DeShaney apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the … |
| 18-5053 |
Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error |
Whether the denial of a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense should be considered structural error that is not subject to harmless er… |