confidential-informants

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
19-6241 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…
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?