drug-investigation

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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…