evidence-seizure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7005 Alsham M. Laster v. Indiana Indiana 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search Whether the warrantless seizure of a phone during a murder investigation violated the Fourth Amendment when police lacked probable cause, failed to li…
23-1355 Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-06-28 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified 'evidence' of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen…
23-802 William Bembury v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-01-25 Denied Amici (2) backpack criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment luggage probable-cause purse search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement Does the exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest permit a warrantless search of a backpack, purse, lug…
23-6496 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure evidence-seizure prejudice pretrial-detention right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-evidence work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege Whether the government's seizure and use at trial of a pretrial detainee's notes reflecting his defense strategy for discussion with counsel violates …
23-6085 Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance Was the district court in error in denying the motion to suppress the evidence?
21-7641 Jose Diaz Perez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure intoxication-statements search-warrant Did the State of Texas and the U.S. District Court improperly admit evidence obtained unconstitutionally?
21-5228 Dwayne Sheckles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing evidence-seizure home-invasion probable-cause residential-searches search-warrant search-warrants Whether a person's status as a suspected drug dealer, alone, provides probable cause to allow for a warrant to be issued for that person's residence
20-1445 Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas Texas 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived affidavit computer-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure surveillance-equipment warrant-application Whether the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals constitutes an unreasonable application of this Court's clearly established precedent, by …
20-7154 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-seizure government-surveillance judicial-misconduct mental-health privacy racial-discrimination sentencing veterans-rights Whether the systematic circulation of a private loan statement among multiple agencies with a personal photo (a practice of prejudice) violates the 4t…
20-7080 Jimmy Lloyd Alexander v. California California 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to prosecutorial misconduct, judicial bias, and improper admission of evidence
19-6469 Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana Indiana 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice to testify violated the petitioner's due process and Sixth Amendme…
18-9788 Sarah Denise Cardwell v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search evidence-seizure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina erred in applying a standard of 'more likely than not' in concluding under the Fourth Amendment's plain vi…
18-9606 Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia Virginia 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination Whether the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized without probable cause