inevitable-discovery
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6455 | Mark Bolling v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment impeachable-fact inevitable-discovery nix-standard search-and-seizure | Whether the presence of impeachable fact is required under Nix before an inevitable discovery analysis can be allowed in the context of a Fourth Amend… |
| 25-5499 | Timothy Alexander v. New York | New York | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct | Whether the exclusionary rule applies when police violate a suspect's Constitutional Rights multiple times during a continuous interrogation, and whet… |
| 24-6511 | Ian Mitcham v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure dna-profile fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure | Does inevitable discovery require an independent alternative investigation that is in progress at the time of the illegal search? |
| 24-6023 | Leonardo Terrazas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure | Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery doctrine conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 23-7323 | Damon Todd Carey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule expert-testimony fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine independent-source inevitable-discovery probable-cause warrant-requirement | Whether the 'inevitable discovery' doctrine requires the alternative theory to be active during the illegal search, and whether illegally obtained evi… |
| 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 … |
| 23A831 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement | Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine under the Fourth Amendment permits suppression of evidence to be excused based on a hypothetical warrant tha… | |
| 23-6715 | Re'Shaun Lamonte Wilborne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the inventory search doctrine can be invoked on slight evidence when no written inventory search policy was produced and the police officer's … |
| 23-6448 | Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether officers may cure an unlawfully prolonged traffic stop by arresting the motorist for the traffic violation or claiming inevitable discovery ba… |
| 23-6034 | Alfredo Sanchez Barboza v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment contraband exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause standardized-protocol subjective-motivation | Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine validates the prior illegal seizure of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia when the police officer… |
| 22-7629 | Jose Luis Nunez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether police may enter and perform a 'protective sweep' of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sugges… |
| 22-5858 | Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause | Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the … |
| 21-7277 | Sadeen Jones v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-03-04 | Denied | IFP | carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery initial-illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | Is this matter so identical to Carpenter v. United States that like that case, this Petition for WRIT OF CERTIORARI should be reviewed, and granted re… |
| 21-6487 | Lisa Marie Cano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeal court-of-appeals evidence historical-facts inevitable-discovery investigating-officer investigation verification | Whether a court of appeal's inference regarding the future course of an investigation, unsupported by testimony from the investigating officer or by e… |
| 20-8014 | Kelvin Baez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement | Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable-discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search? |
| 20-7651 | Gonzalo Curiel v. California | California | 2021-04-02 | Denied | IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the prosecution must prove that the alleged alternative police conduct was an ongoing legitimate investigation simultaneously occurring at the… |
| 20-7416 | James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights had probable cause to arrest the driver for driving under the influence and wo… |
| 20-7098 | Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure | Whether the police officer must actively be pursuing a lawful means of obtaining evidence prior to the occurrence of the illegal misconduct under the … |
| 20-6753 | Andre Martel Winn v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity | Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery-exception |
| 20-5099 | Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop | Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals conflicts with Terry-v-Ohio |
| 19-8809 | Brandon Lee Alexander v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery inventory-search law-enforcement primary-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the inevitable discovery rule exception to the exclusionary rule applies to primary evidence discovered during an unconstitutional warrantless… |
| 19-7209 | Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure | What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)? |
| 19-6595 | Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule | Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object… |
| 19-5866 | Jason Loera v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-courts electronic-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure state-courts technological-advances warrant-requirement | Are the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort analyzing and applying the inevitable discovery doctrine in a manner eviscerating the F… |
| 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… |
| 18-9305 | 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 |
| 18-8186 | Kirby Gant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6531 | Tyler G. Eppes v. United States | Armed Forces | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process evidence evidence-suppression inevitable-discovery military-magistrate personal-bags scope-of-search scrivener's-error search-authorization search-warrant serivener's-error | Was this an error? |