automobile-exception

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6024 Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on the aut…
23-1114 Charles R. Hays v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived automobile-exception contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether law enforcement has probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception to search a driver's vehicle based on a passenger's perso…
23-5305 John Vaughn v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception commercial-trains confrontation-clause fourth-amendment plain-smell-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant-requirement Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment apply to commercial trains?
22-6293 Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle?
21-7577 Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied IFP automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
21-6899 John B. Alberts v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception container criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laptop-computer laptop-evidence private-property search-and-seizure Whether Trial Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Computer Evidence on the Ground that a Search Pursuant to the Automobile Excepti…
21-6175 Shaun Short v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure disabled-car franks-hearing parked-car probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement extend to a parked and disabled car, or is it limited to its original justifications?
20-8167 Bryan Keith Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception field-testing plain-view probable-cause search-and-seizure Did an officer have probable cause to retrieve and field test a loose substance observed in Mr. Miller's vehicle, under the plain view exception to th…
20-6968 Kenton Lance Light v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied IFP abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence that P…
20-411 Traize T. Wash v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states Whether a police officer's subjective intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and unreas…
20-5215 Jessica Lang v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger passenger-rights probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search a passenger's purse, while on her lap, inside an automobile where probable cause…
19-1429 David Pena, III v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether Texas' Third Court of Appeals erred in finding that the items found in the trunk of petitioner's car did not constitute fruit of the poisonous…
19-8318 William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat…
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception?
19-7610 Luciano Camberos-Villapuda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception collins-v-virginia curtilage Due-Process exigent-circumstances Expectation-of-Privacy fourth-amendment payton-v-new-york probable-cause Warrantless-Entry warrantless-search Whether exigent circumstances justified warrantless entry onto the curtilage and search of a vehicle under the automobile exception
18-8186 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read…
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und…