home-invasion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A788 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-08 Application fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter Whether a defendant's self-defense claim involving proportional force during a home invasion can constitute a valid legal defense to a voluntary mansl…
23-897 Cidney Bowdean Ingram v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process duty-to-retreat home-invasion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions porch-as-part-of-home whether-a-certificate-of-appealability-should-be-issued
22-7422 Darrell Gunn v. New York New York 2023-05-02 Denied IFP conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation Whether the court or legislature did not expressly sweep within New York Penal Law § 125.27 all killings in which the murderer unlawfully entered the …
22-6575 Paul Michael Malagerio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constructive-entry exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-invasion knock-and-announce law-enforcement santana-doctrine scott-v-harris search-and-seizure Whether multiple armed law enforcement officers surrounding a home at daybreak, repeatedly banging on the home's only door, refusing to leave, and ord…
22-207 Volodymyr Kvashuk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived and injection of vague 'cybercrime' concepts automatic justification of law enforcement invasi cybercrime electronic-devices electronic-search fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement nexus nexus-analysis search-and-seizure unfounded-presumptions Whether the Ninth Circuit's analytical approach in weighing 'the nature of cybercrime' into its assessment of nexus to search one's home violates the …
21-1251 Eric Ibarguen v. New York New York 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-invasion home-privacy law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure social-guests unreasonable-search Whether social guests are entitled to Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches of the home they are visiting
21-6567 Dion Brown v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-09 Denied IFP criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statement reasonable-doubt reasonable-investigation sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's trial attorney was ineffective
21-709 Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches Whether qualified immunity applies to shield from liability child protective services case workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless searches of a ho…
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
20-1481 Adrian Parbhudial v. Jamie LaManna, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process habeas-corpus home-invasion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistake police-officers Strickland strickland-standard witness-testimony witnesses Was it an unreasonable application of Strickland-v-Washington,466-U.S.-668-(1984)
19-8568 James Stephen Thorpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce private-residence robbery targeting-rule Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly held that there exists an interstate commerce connection for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 an…
19-1059 Angela Hamm, et vir v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement-search privacy privacy-rights probation probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether police violate the Fourth Amendment when they conduct a suspicionless search of a probationer's home
19-6850 Ledell Tyler v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct Whether The Meaning of The Word 'Force' Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompasses Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct
19-694 Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession
18-7309 Kevin Balfour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective-sweep exception to the Fourth-Amendment right …