digital-evidence
22 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6562 | Dustin Shane Sandiford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement and the Fifth Amendment due process mandate, when … |
| 25-6509 | Charles Bocock v. Illinois | Illinois | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction digital-evidence due-process forensic-attribution fourteenth-amendment substantive-proof | 1 Due Process —Sufficiency of the Evidence / Digital Possession. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits affirmance of a convic… |
| 24-6185 | Warren Siepman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-statute digital-evidence federal-law peer-to-peer-networks transportation-of-illicit-material | Whether a conviction for transportation of child pornography requires proof of actual download or merely making material available through peer-to-pee… |
| 24-89 | Cory Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure digital-evidence digital-privacy fourth-amendment gps metadata metadata-search probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant-requirements warrant-scope | Does Riley v. California prohibit the Government from searching privacy protected GPS information in the metadata of a digital video labeled contraban… |
| 23-5477 | James Thomas Butler, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent consent-search digital-evidence due-process forensic-extraction fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-privacy | Does consent to 'take a look' at a smartphone extend to a full forensic extraction? |
| 22-7440 | Robert Christopher England v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment computer-forensics computer-search digital-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from the search of his computer |
| 22-6832 | James L. Mahaffey v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-02-22 | Denied | IFP | cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure | Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz… |
| 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… |
| 21-6305 | Eric Volk v. State Bar of California | California | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Can The Spate bar of CAIIFOCWA cJos2 . a Complaint an my BHerreo Ms. Lance Brown, Where rules ef profcfsyone| Condect, dnd ng Ave proces Whrk Ve oat l… |
| 21-5087 | Zachary Gage Pebley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication chain-of-custody criminal-procedure deepfakes digital-evidence digital-recordings due-process voice-identification | Whether the government's burden of establishing authentication and chain of custody for digital recordings is sufficient to protect a criminal defenda… |
| 20-1204 | Mark Ringland v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | digital-evidence electronic-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure trespass united-states-v-jacobsen | Whether compelling someone's emails from his or her electronic service provider and opening them is a trespass, and therefore a 'search,' under the Fo… |
| 20-1043 | United States v. Miguel Angel Cano | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | border-crime border-related-crimes border-search digital-contraband digital-evidence electronic-device fourth-amendment physical-smuggling warrant-exception | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the scope of a search of an electronic device under the border-search exception to the Fourth Amend… |
| 20-526 | Jason M. Blackburn v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer? |
| 20-5601 | Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does the conflict of the particularity required for computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth Circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 19-7552 | Joseph Michael Guarascio v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights compensation constitutional-violation digital-data digital-evidence due-process evidence-retention government-seizure law-enforcement property-rights | Can the government retain indefinitely petitioner's seized business and personal electronic files, digital data and other physical property? |
| 19-7128 | Mojisola Popoola v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment digital-evidence encrypted-devices encryption fifth-amendment miranda-warnings police-custody search-and-seizure self-incrimination standing suppression testimonial-conduct testimonial-evidence | Whether the physical act of a person in police custody responding to a request to enter her passcode to unlock an encrypted cellphone is testimonial c… |
| 19-6819 | Frankie Ovies v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony | Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the ev… |
| 19-6573 | Garron Gonzalez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during warrantless interception of incoming calls on a jailed probationer's cell p… |
| 19-6533 | Kaleb L. Basey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2703(f) digital-evidence digital-privacy email-privacy fourth-amendment government-request internet-service-provider search seizure warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless preservation of private emails by an Internet Service Provider pursuant to a government request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f) amoun… |
| 19-6154 | Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity | Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as 'all data/software' pertaining to the crimes is off… |
| 18-9177 | Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment | Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz… |
| 18-8448 | Edward Bishop v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment? |