plain-view-doctrine
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6359 | Travis Tuggle v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine sixth-amendment technological-advances unreasonable-search | 1. Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was infringed upon when counsel failed to argue that, in orde… |
| 23-7295 | Glen Taylor Helzer v. California | California | 2024-04-23 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrant-scope | Does the plain view doctrine apply where police enter and seize a home under a warrant to search for evidence of specified crimes, and forego getting … |
| 22-5996 | Ricky D. Runner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-informant cbd-oil fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause stem-pipe warrantless-search | Whether the district court violated Ricky Runner's rights under the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-1482 | Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams's Motion to Supress evidence related … |
| 21-1190 | Ramon Rios, III v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home under surveillance? |
| 21-922 | James Combs v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment open-view-doctrine plain-view-doctrine pre-textual-search private-property vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's plain view and/or open view doctrines permit a police officer, uninvited and without a warrant, to enter upon private p… |
| 19-6698 | Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-consent plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue-defense wire-fraud | Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful arrest, unlawful search and seizure, and involuntary coerced consent |
| 19-6587 | Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does an officer's seizure of an object only after crouching down, carefully examining it for several seconds, and obtaining another officer's second o… |
| 19-494 | David Zachary Morgan v. Washington | Washington | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-search plain-view-doctrine plain-view-exception probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether a government official who would like to seize someone's personal property, and has both probable cause and the time to obtain a warrant, must … |
| 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… |
| 18-8186 | 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… |
| 18-1035 | Keithrick Thomas v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-07 | Denied | curtilage driveway plain-view-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search curtilage fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search warrantless-search | Warrantless search of passenger's pockets in driveway violates Fourth Amendment | |
| 18-48 | Minnesota v. Quentin Todd Chute | Minnesota | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk plain-view plain-view-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from engaging in knock-and-talks to gather evidence, and whether officers can inspect evidence … |