| 23-6897 |
Pedro Armando Nava v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure industrial-hemp marijuana-odor medical-marijuana odor-of-marijuana probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search based on marijuana odor in a state with legal medical marijuana and hemp |
| 21-5027 |
Shane LaGrange v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop based on facts the officers did not believe created reasonable suspicion |
| 19-7881 |
Tavares L. Farrington v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop |
Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po… |
| 19-1057 |
Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called 'community caretaking' where the alleged danger to the commu… |
| 19-7171 |
Samuel Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power |
Whether the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? |
| 19-6766 |
Miles Barton Nichols v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant |
Whether a finding of recklessness should be inferred where omissions are critical to probable cause |
| 19-6737 |
Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin… |
| 19-6296 |
Michael Holmes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committed reversible error by endorsing a bright-l… |
| 19-5671 |
James Lyle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
byrd-v-united-states community-caretaking driver's-license exclusive-possession exclusive-possession-and-control fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure non-criminal-control reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-vehicle trunk-access vehicle-search warrant-exception |
Whether a person operating a rental vehicle without a valid driver's license has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle's locked trunk com… |
| 18-9694 |
Oliver Douce v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under … |
| 18-9520 |
Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-06-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search |
Whether in light of Bollinger v. New Hampshire, 390 U.S. 1020, the Arizona based conviction of petitioner violates his Fourth Amendment rights where t… |
| 18-9305 |
Joshua Chapman-Sexton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the inevitable discovery exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 18-8754 |
Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska |
Alaska |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop |
Should civil penalties be imposed on petitioner for refusal to submit to a breath test when an intrusive blood test was administered |
| 18-8177 |
Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether under the Fourth Amendment the reasonable articulable suspicion necessary to extend a traffic stop must be formed before the officer's deviati… |
| 18-1024 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application |
Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause |
| 18-900 |
Philip Zodhiates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure good-faith-exception international-parental-kidnapping probable-cause warrant-requirement |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule allows use at trial of cell-site location information illegally seized by a prosecutor prior… |
| 18-6399 |
Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy |
Whether the officer conducted a valid inventory search of a closed container without a written policy governing such searches |