inventory-search
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6540 | Jason M. Potter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search state-law warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless impoundment and subsequent inventory search of a vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment when the operator has not been arrested… |
| 25-6242 | Willie Frank Gordon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause vehicle-seizure | 1. Sheriff's deputies suspected a driver had drugs, stopped him, and wanted to search his car to find them. Only when their attempt to establish proba… |
| 24A1119 | Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | consent fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches based on purported consent when the totality of circumstances suggests the consent was not v… | |
| 24-6983 | Markanthony Deleon Sapalasan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | IFP | detention fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement property-retention search-and-seizure | Does it violate the Fourth Amendment to retain personal property of a person who is not going to be incarcerated and to search the property long after… |
| 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 … |
| 23-6034 | 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… |
| 22-5858 | 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 … |
| 21-898 | Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure | May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv… |
| 21-5768 | Jeffrey William Forget v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inventory-search k-9-unit passenger-seat-belt traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether the traffic stop was unlawfully extended |
| 20-7210 | Tesfa Connell v. New York | New York | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car |
| 20-996 | Raymond Marling v. Frank Vanihel, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment circuit-split closed-container fourth-amendment incriminating-evidence inventory-search officer-discretion standardized-criteria warrantless-search | Does a police department's policy sufficiently limit officer discretion during an inventory search if it enables an officer to choose to open a closed… |
| 20-6774 | Craig B. Snoddy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on invent… |
| 20-6740 | Darnell Lewis Peak v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search pennsylvania-law police-procedure private-property vehicle-impoundment | Whether the inventory search was illegal under 75 Pa.C.S. § 6309(a) as no public interest was threatened |
| 20-6551 | Andy Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rehaif-v-united-states warrantless-search | Was the second warrantless search of the car -which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-developed suspicion… |
| 20-5159 | Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment | Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 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… |
| 19-7020 | Nahach Garay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search | Whether a purported inventory search that produces no inventory can justify the warrantless search of an automobile |
| 19-6859 | Michael A. Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search | Whether an officer with a motive to search for incriminating evidence may impound a vehicle and inventory its contents in contravention of the standar… |
| 19-5139 | Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment | Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles |
| 18-8758 | Lamonte Diondre Gaston v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment caretaking civil-procedure community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement outstanding-fine warrant-requirement | Whether the inventory-search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to a search of a vehicle that was impounded for the purpo… |
| 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… |
| 18-7746 | Joseph Davis v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure | Whether errors in an inventory search report are indicative of a 'ruse' under Florida v. Wells, thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered during… |
| 18-6810 | Timothy Hickman-Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | colorado-v-bertine criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel inventory-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman vehicle-search | Did inventory search violate this Court's decisions in South Dakota v. Opperman and Colorado v. Bertine, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the Consti… |
| 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 |