good-faith-exception
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6310 | Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | I. In United States v. Leon, this Court announced a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. 468 U.S. 897, 922-23 (1984). "[T]he marginal or non… |
| 25-5858 | Robert Peck, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | exclusionary-rule felon-in-possession fourth-amendment good-faith-exception marijuana-conviction second-amendment | Does 18 U. S. C. §922(g)(l) violate the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm based… |
| 25-5413 | Raymond Ronald Jennings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment good-faith-exception informant-credibility probable-cause reckless-disregard search-warrant | Did the officer omit from his probable cause affidavit information concerning the two informant's credibility that could infer reckless disregard for … |
| 24-6790 | Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied the good faith exception to a search warrant that allegedly lacked probable cause and nexus |
| 24-988 | Jorge Vasquez v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. | California | 2025-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Can law enforcement's failure to state any facts to establish probable cause be excused as 'good faith' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 24-6412 | Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception wiretap-order | Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies to Title III wiretap orders that are insufficient on their face, an… |
| 24-5890 | Ushery Stewart v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of a residence based solely on a person's status as a known drug dealer and whether Leon's g… |
| 24-5870 | Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidence-collection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement warrantless-arrest | Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule can be extended to evidence collected from a warrantless arrest |
| 24-5702 | James Robert Bailey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure district-court good-faith-exception legal-error void-ab-initio warrant-validity | Whether the district erred by applying the good-faith exception to a warrant that was void ab initio? |
| 24-5513 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith franks-hearing good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant | May a search warrant affiant be excused under the Good Faith Exception when intentionally withholding critical information about prior state court sup… |
| 24-198 | Michigan v. Floyd Russell Galloway, Jr. | Michigan | 2024-08-22 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | deterrence-doctrine evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception police-misconduct prosecutorial-responsibility | Is exclusion of reliable, probative evidence of guilt warranted to deter an outside officer's misconduct where there are other deterrents that do not … |
| 24-5335 | Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Darosa conflicts with other Circuit Courts' precedents regarding the admissibility of finger… |
| 24-5074 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression | Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule? |
| 23-7636 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sworn-testimony warrant-affidavit | Does the Leon good-faith exception apply to salvage a barebones affidavit? |
| 23-1242 | Taurean Jerome Weber v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | digital-property digital-trespass exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-intrusion search terms-of-service trespass warrantless-search | Did the Court of Appeals err when it determined Instagram's boilerplate Terms of Service delineated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights and held no s… |
| 23A1041 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception material-misrepresentation probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the Exclusionary Rule under U.S. v. Leon impermissibly erodes Fourth Amendment protections when applied to search … | |
| 23-7416 | Christopher J. Pratt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review | Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), when … |
| 23-7321 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-defect warrant-requirement | Whether the good-faith exception applies to save evidence obtained through an unconstitutional warrant because, hypothetically, if the magistrate had … |
| 23-7121 | Basilio Hernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | docket-procedure docket-sheet exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement | Did the court err in finding that the good-faith-exception to the exclusionary-rule applied? |
| 23-6990 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Does the Fourth Amendment permit the issuance of a search warrant for a cell phone absent case-specific facts connecting the alleged crime and the pho… |
| 23-6609 | Kevin McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cloud-search electronic-media exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule can save a cloud search warrant unsupported by probable cause and devoid of particularity |
| 23A676 | Kevin McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of an entire digital cloud storage account based on a good faith exception to the warrant re… | |
| 23A655 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Presumed Complete | cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that lacks probable cause and particularity, despite t… | |
| 23-6193 | Steven Vincent Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-material criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity warrantless-search | Does the determination that a warrant is void ab initio, rendering the resultant search of the Petitioner's residence warrantless (and thus unreasonab… |
| 23-6045 | Perry Wayne Suggs, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment general-warrant good-faith-exception home-search particularity-requirement search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | When a warrant plainly violates the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement by authorizing an unbridled, general search of a home, does the good-… |
| 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 | 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 residen… |
| 23-5826 | Mary Ann German v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity | Whether the police get a grace period under the Davis good faith exception after a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under… |
| 22-7781 | Donell Jamar Hines v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment curtilage fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jardines-precedent k9-sniff search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the Leon good faith exception should allow admission of evidence obtained as a result of two unconstitutional searches, in violation of Jardin… |
| 22-7401 | Brandon Quane Hudson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magisterial-review magistrate-review probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Leon good-faith exception applies to a search warrant that lacked sufficient probable cause to support a search |
| 22-7097 | Monta Olander Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception gps-tracking leon-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether The Court Of Appeals Misapplied United States v. Leon |
| 22-7098 | Rashid Turner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement | Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon… |
| 22-6427 | Denver Sangster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-vs-maryland confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the lower courts erred in deciding probable cause, the confrontation clause concerning search and seizures and/or requirements of a warrant, w… |
| 22-6430 | Alex Bugno v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-12-30 | Denied | IFP | evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure | Are search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring suppre… |
| 22-236 | Jake J. McGovern v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception overbroad probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-scope | Is a warrant to search a cell phone overbroad, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, if it authorizes the search of evidence on the phone in addition … |
| 22-5508 | Hanford Chiu v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections |
| 22-85 | Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris | Oregon | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping | Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegation? |
| 21-7699 | Eugene Nicholson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when the affidavit supporting a search warrant fails to establish a nexus between th… |
| 21-7431 | William Nobles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war… |
| 21-7004 | Adam L. Ware v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-deficiency civil-procedure deterrence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception recurring-negligence standing systemic-negligence | Should the good-faith exception apply when an affiant has been repeatedly warned not to submit deficient affidavits? |
| 21-921 | Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2021-12-22 | Denied | administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine | Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable | |
| 21-6682 | Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether a reviewing court should ignore the Fourth Amendment analysis and go directly to a good faith analysis under United States v. Leon when an aff… |
| 21-6394 | Kyle S. Matthews v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment good-faith-exception indicia-of-probable-cause probable-cause prosecutor-involvement search-and-seizure | Where a search warrant affidavit lacks probable cause |
| 21-6364 | Kenneth R. Friend v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2518 authorization-defect dahda-v-united-states deputy-assistant-attorney-general deputy-attorney-general fourth-amendment good-faith-exception warrant-requirement wiretap-statute | Does the good-faith-exception apply to wiretap-statute-violations? |
| 21-752 | Rex Hammond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception real-time-tracking search warrant-requirement wireless-carrier | Whether a government agent's direction to a wireless carrier to send a signal to a person's phone, so that the phone reveals the person's precise loca… |
| 21-5265 | Terry Reed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement | Whether the good faith exception to the warrant requirement extends so far as to excuse an officer's reliance upon an affidavit he drafted with the on… |
| 20-7459 | Herman Rosario v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception independent-determination motion-to-suppress physical-evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-application | Whether the district court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence |
| 20-6990 | Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing | Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI? |
| 20-6771 | Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application | Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search |
| 20-6733 | John Christopher Ferguson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies where law enforcement knew or should have known the affidavit would lead to a mistak… |
| 20-6444 | Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-11-27 | Denied | IFP | cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement | Whether the state appellate court erroneously applied the good-faith-exception to the warrant-requirement despite a state-statute requiring a finding … |
| 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? |
| 20-5942 | John Tran v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity | Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule |
| 20-5776 | Joel Thomas Augard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution | Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit? |
| 20-5749 | Elijah Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu… |
| 20-5494 | Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review | Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability… |
| 20-5431 | Walter Ackerman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-of-the-case waiver warrantless-search | Did the Tenth Circuit err under the law-of-the-case doctrine when it permitted the government to raise in a second appeal a claim the government waive… |
| 20-5339 | Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether the reviewing court must use the test set forth in United States v. Leon or the test set forth in Illinois v. Krull to determine if good faith… |
| 20-5303 | Lawrence A. Dibble v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-review law-enforcement magistrate oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a court may consider unrecorded, oral information provided to a magistrate when evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's belief in the ex… |
| 19-8926 | Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review | Whether the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States applies to the search warrant for the defendant's home |
| 19-1454 | Naray Palaniappan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | computer-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-particularity-requirement good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation particularity-requirement search-warrant warrant-application warrant-incorporation | Where a warrant application requested authorization to search computers 'wherever located' but the warrant itself omitted that language, can governmen… |
| 19-1423 | George Vortman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity | Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init… |
| 19-8654 | Richard Senese, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii article-three due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent panel-rule stare-decisis | Question not identified |
| 19-1027 | David Caswell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant | Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate… |
| 19-7682 | Eric Beverly v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application | Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it… |
| 19-7581 | James Ryan Taylor and Steven Vincent Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geographic-scope good-faith-exception misrepresentation search-warrant | Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to evidence seized under an invalid warrant if agents knowingly misrepresented the fact t… |
| 19-7173 | Kenneth Rose v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression | Whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exception, which would have not permitte… |
| 19-7053 | Jason Dean Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity | Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers… |
| 19-6095 | Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement | Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva… |
| 19-6008 | David W. Tippens v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity | Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init… |
| 19-5909 | Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida | Florida | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search | Whether the 'good faith' exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 19-5782 | Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory | Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole and … |
| 19-5795 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when an affidavit supporting a search warrant had been tainted by evidence obtained … |
| 19-5676 | Jerel Leon Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment giglio-impeachment giglio-v-united-states good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether a district court may consider evidence outside the warrant affidavit in determining good-faith exception |
| 19-5444 | Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity | When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply? |
| 19-5396 | Vincent Anzalone v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically applicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro… |
| 19-5357 | Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction | When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t… |
| 19-5339 | James Kenneth Ganzer, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-authority magistrate-judge search-warrant void-ab-initio | Can the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that was void ab initio, and therefore without lega… |
| 19-5283 | Kyle Jason Korte v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law | Does the 'good faith exception' outlined in Illinois v. Krull extend to circumstances where the statute remains valid but was improperly applied? |
| 18-9631 | Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin | Whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l… |
| 18-9259 | Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit | May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning? |
| 18-9037 | Rolander Brown v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act | Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act |
| 18-1344 | LaMarcus Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application | Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, (2) only that information … | |
| 18-8694 | Bryan Gilbert Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception law-enforcement search-warrant systemic-misconduct systemic-mistake united-states-v-leon | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule of United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) applies when law enforcement makes an obvious,… |
| 18-8668 | Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-04-02 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law | Was COA17-1134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? |
| 18-1248 | Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc… |
| 18-8518 | John Moses Burton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | When and how should the courts be bound to the precedent set by the high Court's opinion? |
| 18-1219 | Illinois v. Derrick Bonilla | Illinois | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Amici (1) | apartment apartment-building apartment-search common-area dog-sniff drug-detection-dog exclusionary-rule florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether a sniff by a drug-detection dog conducted in the common area of an apartment building is a Fourth Amendment search under Florida v. Jardines |
| 18-8202 | Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when the … |
| 18-7711 | Christopher Fitzgerald v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-affidavit | Does the 'good faith' exception to the exclusionary rule apply to uphold a search |
| 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… |
| 18-7184 | Antione Chambers, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Twizzie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrantless-search | Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 18-7134 | Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee | Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and… |
| 18-6905 | Thomas Thadeus Szczerba v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | IFP | affidavit-incorporation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception incorporation-of-affidavit search-and-seizure warrant-incorporation warrant-particularity warrant-particularization | Does the Leon 'good-faith exception' to the exclusionary rule apply when a warrant fails to particularize the 'things to be seized' and fails to conta… |
| 18-6702 | Brandon Gale Combs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate at … |
| 18-6431 | Justin Jenkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search | Whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress evidence from illegal searches |
| 18-6116 | Anthony Allen Jean v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity | Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to warrants void ab initio? |
| 18-5630 | Hunter Vaughan Eure v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity-requirement remote-computer-searches remote-search search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-particularity | Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 18-5587 | Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable… |
| 18-5536 | Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants | When is a search of a cell phone conducted for the purposes of a search warrant following Riley v. California? |
| 18-5526 | Michael P. Lough v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5508 | Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 18-5414 | Keith William Deichert v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio | Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant… |
| 18-5368 | Gabriel Werdene v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity | Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd… |
| 18-5279 | Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity | Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant was grossly negligent, thereby precluding application of good-faith exception |
| 18-5004 | Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe |