cell-phone-search

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7500 Ramon Carlos Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2025-06-25 Denied IFP cell-phone-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy-interest warrant-limitation Does the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement place any limitations on the search of a cell phone beyond requiring that a search warrant limit…
24-6467 Ronnie Robinson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probation-search reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search of a probationer's cell phone and residence by a probation officer without reasonable suspicion violates Fourth Amendment…
24-302 Marcos Mendez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) border-search cell-phone-search electronic-privacy fourth-amendment suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether the Government may conduct a warrantless and suspicionless search of electronic contents of a person's cell phone at the border
23-1355 Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-06-28 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified 'evidence' of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen…
23-6990 Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Does the Fourth Amendment permit the issuance of a search warrant for a cell phone absent case-specific facts connecting the alleged crime and the pho…
23A655 Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Presumed Complete cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that lacks probable cause and particularity, despite t…
23-5840 Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search cell-phone-search cell-phones constitutional-rights customs-and-border-protection digital-privacy fourth-amendment search-and-seizure u.s-border warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless search of cell phone at U.S. border
23A193 Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete border-search-doctrine cell-phone-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment riley-v-california warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies to suspicionless searches of electronic devices, including cell phones, at the international …
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
22-6900 Tony Deng v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search coercion confession-voluntariness deception-tactics due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-interrogation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy right-to-counsel will-overborne-standard Whether the 'will overborne' standard or analysis should be used to evaluate the voluntariness of a confession obtained by trickery and deception
22-486 Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin Texas 2022-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc…
22-354 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement from searching places where a parolee has standing but are not unambiguousl…
22-236 Jake J. McGovern v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-09-13 Denied Response Waived cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception overbroad probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-scope Is a warrant to search a cell phone overbroad, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, if it authorizes the search of evidence on the phone in addition …
22-5065 O. L. v. Liliana Jara, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search consent digital-duplication fourth-amendment possessory-interest privacy search-and-seizure seizure When a crime victim's cell phone is searched, what is the scope of consent?
21-7654 Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review Whether the California Supreme Court erred when it denied petitioners' request for review on the summary denial of petitioners' writ of mandate and pr…
21-1099 Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel
21-6788 Bernard Lindsey v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner's home provided sufficient grounds to search their entire contents
21-6164 Julia Lagunas-Hernandez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof cell-phone-search constitutional-rights defense-counsel fair-trial jury marital-communication marital-communications prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy Whether the United States committed prosecutorial misconduct, depriving Petitioner of a fair trial
21-5902 Alhakka Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements Whether a warrant that authorizes police to seize a smart phone and search it for 'all electronic data' is invalid because it is insufficiently partic…
20-7914 Danny Ray Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether an officer must expressly state that he is seeking consent for a forensic, not just a manual, search of a cell phone
20-6445 Cristofer Jose Gallegos-Espinal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-form forensic-search fourth-amendment government-surveillance perpetuity riley-precedent riley-v-california Whether verbal consent to 'look through' a cell phone, followed by written consent on an outmoded pre-Riley consent form, permits the government to pe…
19-1327 Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-06-01 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the 'contents' of a cell phone for unspecified '…
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…
19-5414 Arthur Whitley v. Texas Texas 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel…
18-8307 Dockery Cleveland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info…
18-6918 Samantha Christine Velazquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone-privacy cell-phone-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a warrantless, post-arrest cell-phone-search is permissible under the Fourth-Amendment at the United-States-border
18-211 Steven Morris Hurd v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement Whether the search incident to arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applied to digital data on a cell phone prior to Riley v. …
18-5536 Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants When is a search of a cell phone conducted for the purposes of a search warrant following Riley v. California?
18-5306 Ramiah Jefferson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-20 GVR Relisted (3)IFP cell-phone cell-phone-search fourth-amendment gang-activity probable-cause riley-v-california search-warrant zurcher-v-stanford-daily Whether an application for a search warrant to examine the contents of a cell phone seized incident to an arrest must show more to establish probable …