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25-6694 Donny Ray Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant Whether the 'materiality' prong of Franks v. Delaware allows law enforcement to omit a confidential informant's credibility issues when corroborating …
25-6366 Jarrett Howard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure fentanyl heroin probable-cause search-warrant Did probable cause exist to issue a search warrant when the affidavit for the warrant did not specify the timing of the confidential informant's obser…
25A221 Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete confidential-informant criminal-discovery electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-surveillance Whether a defendant can challenge the admissibility of evidence obtained through warrantless surveillance by a confidential informant under the Fourth…
24-5524 Kenneth W. Blair v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confidential-informant judicial-discretion motion-to-compel standard-of-review supervisory-authority Whether the Eighth Circuit's finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in overruling Blair's motion to compel the disclosure of a c…
24-5220 Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence Whether prejudicial joinder of unrelated counts violates the right to a fair trial,
23-7564 Ricky T. Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that uncorroborated and unreliable double hearsay statements of an unreliable confidential informant was suf…
23-7359 Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied IFP confidential-informant constitutional-rights due-process prison-management retaliation rule-50 state-actor transcript Can a prison confidential informant be described as a state actor for retaliation
23-6095 Jerome McGoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confidential-informant controlled-buy criminal-procedure drug-investigation due-process law-enforcement search-and-seizure undercover-operation Is Arkansas state authorized to use a confidential informant in an undercover operation to make controlled buys?
23-398 Henry H. Howe v. Steven Gilpin, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) confidential-informant criminal-investigation dishonesty-and-false-statement law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard rule-609 warrant-affidavit Whether complete omission from an arrest warrant of a primary confidential informant's multiple prior Rule 609 [F.R.Evid.] 'dishonesty and false state…
23-5314 Joe Crawford v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states Whether the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction when the government fails to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner knew or…
22-6427 Denver Sangster v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-vs-maryland confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the lower courts erred in deciding probable cause, the confrontation clause concerning search and seizures and/or requirements of a warrant, w…
22-5455 Tyrone Woolaston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense
22-5022 Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity When probable cause is based on a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establish the informant's reliability by the informa…
21-7685 Carlos Delgado, aka Los v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard roviaro-v-united-states search-and-seizure warrant-affidavit Did the DEA task force agent act with reckless disregard for the truth when omitting material information that militated against a finding of probable…
21-7597 Clifford Idris Bell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-residence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the issuance of a warrant and the subsequent search of a personal residence based solely on a confidential info…
21-7104 Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing Did the court err in its HECK BARR determination?
21-5211 Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense?
20-5956 Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the…
20-5793 Francisco Zendejas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-defendant disclosure disclosure-motion due-process-rights in-camera-hearing roviaro-standard roviaro-v-united-states threshold-showing When a criminal defendant moves to disclose the identity of a confidential informant under Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 58 (1957), and makes a t…
20-350 Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who…
20-5186 John Edward Butler v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-investigation dna-evidence due-process excessive-force law-enforcement trial-procedure Whether the defendant's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the police officers' use of excessive force, warrantless searc…
19-8267 Jon Cascella v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confidential-informant constitutional-error due-process fifth-amendment independent-inquiry testimony uniform-practice witness-testimony Whether permitting a blanket claim of Fifth Amendment privilege and total exclusion of a confidential informant's testimony without independent inquir…
19-7241 William Gene Cox, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-assault civil-rights confidential-informant confidential-informants constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search Should law enforcement be allowed to utilize armed assaults by confidential informants as pretext for circumventing the Fourth Amendment guarantee aga…
19-7228 Jerry Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred
19-6990 King Bush v. Kannika Say Michigan 2019-12-18 Denied IFP benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the marriage based on immigration fraud should be voided
19-6837 Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony Whether the state of Delaware can withhold exculpatory evidence relating to the state's office of medical examiners officials, denying true evidence f…
19-6241 Elfred William Petruk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant confidential-informants drug-evidence eighth-circuit fourth-amendment gps-tracking gps-tracking-warrants illinois-v-gates probable-cause search-warrant stale-information Did the Eighth Circuit erroneously rule, in conflict with this Court's decision in Illinois v. Gates, that the search warrant for a Chrysler vehicle a…
19-5806 John Bradham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process evidence evidence-admission sixth-amendment Whether the district court's erroneous admission of a video of an alleged drug-and-firearm transaction between the CI and the defendant violated the c…
19-5176 Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem…
19-5015 Michael D. Kelley v. Colette S. Peters, in Her Individual Capacity, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-segregation confidential-informant due-process ninth-circuit-standard prison-administration prison-administrative-hearing prison-hearing some-evidence some-evidence-standard standing superintendent-v-hill Whether the 'some evidence' standard announced in Superintendent v. Hill, 472 US 445 (1985), is satisfied in a prison administrative hearing setting w…
18-9748 George Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea Does the 'fair and just reason' standard for withdrawal of a guilty plea properly encompass the post-plea, pre-sentence acquisition of information abo…
18-9301 Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that the confidential informant purch…
18-8861 Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale Can a citizen be convicted of an uncharged crime?
18-8500 Nickey Ardd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement Question not identified
18-8218 Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v…
18-7842 Brian Michael Burton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP emotional and physical dominion and control over 5th-amendment confidential-informant downward-departure due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement psychological-control sentencing statutory-minimum-sentence Whether a downward departure from a statutory minimum sentence is warranted
18-7324 Roberto Gil v. Florida Florida 2019-01-09 Denied IFP arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police violates due process rights?
18-863 Tralvis Edmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch…
18-7151 Curtis John Mulhern v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-enterprise due-process entrapment law-enforcement outrageous-conduct outrageous-government-conduct probable-cause reverse-sting Did law enforcement conduct become constitutionally unacceptable where government-agents-and-confidential-informant-engineered-criminal-enterprise
18-6094 Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa Is the prosecution required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA by the DEA and its confidential infor…
18-5874 Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Did the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit error in finding probable cause to justify a vehicle stop and the arrest of petitioner?
18-5587 Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable…
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?