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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5864 Antwone Miguel Sanders v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment leon-exception nexus probable-cause search-warrant Whether the search warrant affidavit failed to establish the requisite nexus for searching a private residence and whether the Leon good-faith excepti…
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…
22-7554 Samuel Terraye Windom v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-buy drug-evidence fourth-amendment informant nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether a controlled drug transaction that takes place away from a suspect's home is sufficient to establish a nexus between the offense and the suspe…
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 …
21-6824 Dwight Frederick Barnes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment geolocation-warrant good-faith-doctrine nexus search-and-seizure warrant-requirements warrantless-searches Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the lis…
20-8029 Steven D. Warren, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-application Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the …
20-7849 Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing Whether mandatory sentences are constitutional
19-8104 Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify se…
19-6816 Michael J. Warner, II v. Maine Maine 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit burglary cell-phone-data criminal-evidence nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Whether an affidavit in support of a search warrant that contains neither specific allegations that a burglary suspect's cell phone data contain evide…
19-6546 Elmer Misael Garcia Ramirez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-authority define-and-punish-clause due-process high-seas international-law international-waters jurisdiction maritime-law nexus Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction because neither the U.S. Constitution nor any theory of international law permits jurisdiction to be asser…
19-6267 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-privacy crime-investigation criminal-investigation fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of the content of a suspect's cell phone when the affidavit in support of the search provides no nex…
18-8665 Michael Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the place t…
18-5917 John Doe v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines