drug-investigation
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5431 | Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance | Under the Fourth Amendment, is there a sufficient nexus to support probable cause to search a citizen's house when a drug dealer briefly parks near th… |
| 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 it not true that Arkansas state was not authorized to use the Confidential Informant (CI) Robert Sullivan a.k.a. Smokey G. in an undercover operati… |
| 23-6006 | Delando Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-exception nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause residential-search search-warrant | 1. Whether an application for a warrant to search a home for drugs must contain objective evidence of a nexus between the evidence sought and the resi… |
| 23-5862 | Benancio Castaneda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility canine-sniff drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Narcotics agents were surveilling a house based on unidentified "concerned citizen" calls of a high volume of short-stay traffic. Without corroboratin… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner Bernard Lindsey's home provided sufficient grounds, under the Fourth Amendment, to s… |