contraband

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5136 John Michael Murphy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation contraband fourth-amendment pat-down plain-touch-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the plain-touch doctrine allows deputies to remove an unknown object from under a person's clothing when they do not believe it is a weapon or…
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…
23-6034 Alfredo Sanchez Barboza v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment contraband exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause standardized-protocol subjective-motivation Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine validates the prior illegal seizure of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia when the police officer…
22-978 Jackie Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2023-04-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether a police search of a car occurred under the Fourth Amendment
22-6338 Lucas Michael McNulty-Snodgrass v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP commerce-clause congressional-intent contraband drug-possession federal-preemption federalism jurisdictional-conflict Question not identified. separation-of-powers state-sovereignty Whether the United States Department of Justice and Federal courts have jurisdiction to prosecute illicit drug possession crimes committed solely with…
21-7344 Edwin Calligan v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP anticipatory-warrant contraband fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-warrant triggering-event Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with United States v. Grubbs
21-192 Gregory S. Simpson v. United States Armed Forces 2021-08-11 Denied Response Waived aiding-and-abetting contraband criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea mens-rea statutory-construction Is it a constitutional due process violation for Petitioner's guilty plea to distribution of indecent images to be accepted based on a theory that he …
20-368 Eric Christopher Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment appellate-counsel constructive-possession contraband due-process fifth-amendment intent physical-evidence presentence-report residence Does constructive possession violate due process?
19-8284 In Re Michael A. Young 2020-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-forfeiture contraband due-process just-compensation standing takings-clause Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause does not prohibit the government from seizing private property without just compens…
18-1589 James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-27 Denied contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation Whether the act of deleting or destroying contraband evidences a lack of knowing or intentional possession
18-5573 Tajuan Williams v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law contraband due-process evidence-gathering fourth-amendment prison prison-regulations prisoner-rights regulations Should the Court review the case, de novo, to address the importance to the public of the issue in keeping contraband items out of prisons and out of …