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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 |