independent-source-doctrine
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-454 | Ismael Bimbow v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry | 1. Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apart… |
| 24-6903 | John Sheldon Pickens, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine investigatory-stop warrantless-search | Does an unlawful flee that would not have happened but for the police's violation of the Fourth Amendment trigger the independent source exception to … |
| 22-6014 | Herbert G. Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search independent-source-doctrine police-procedure search-warrant | Does the independent source doctrine permit the admission of evidence found during an illegal search of a home if police later obtained a search warra… |
| 20-7512 | Forrest R. Cox, III v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-statute fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine immutable-evidence independent-source-doctrine search-warrant | Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court erred in applying the good-faith doctrine to a search warrant executed after the federal statute and relevant case … |
| 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 |
| 19-527 | Paul Huskisson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform | Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule take into account the flagrancy and deliberate nature of the underlying Fourth Amendmen… | |
| 19-5543 | Arnold Maurice Mathis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment warrantless-search | Whether trial counsel was ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment |
| 18-7043 | Coleman Tuton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine commercial-passenger-bus drug-detection-canine fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine luggage probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Does the general alert of a drug-detection canine to the luggage compartment of a commercial passenger bus—but not to any particular piece of luggage … |