police-investigation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6524 Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP collective-knowledge-doctrine criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-suppression police-investigation traffic-stop 1. Following a months-long investigation into drug trafficking and while preparing to search an apartment within a large apartment complex, police obs…
22-6462 Jerome K. Ta'afulisia v. Washington Washington 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-creation law-enforcement-solicitation michigan-v-bryant ohio-v-clark police-investigation primary-purpose-test sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Is a statement testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment when the speaker talks with a trusted family member who is …
22-5016 Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti…
21-8262 Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated
21-973 John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase Second Circuit 2022-01-06 Dismissed Response Requested civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether the officers were entitled to qualified immunity where the law was not clearly established that a charge of making a false statement could be …
21-6770 Dave Elysee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Amici (1)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defense due-process evidence legal-procedure police-investigation presumption-of-innocence suspect-identification trial-defense Whether a criminal defendant may mount a defense at trial based on an inadequate police investigation into another suspect
21-6150 Jacques S. Gholston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment illinois-v-caballes police-investigation rodriguez-v-united-states time-extension traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure Whether a traffic stop unreasonably prolonged beyond the time needed to address the purpose of the stop violates the Fourth Amendment regardless of wh…
20-8179 Chad Alan Soderman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation investigative-detention police-investigation reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states supervisory-power traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated under Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) where individual acts by police to investigate a crime…
20-5923 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2020-10-06 Denied Amici (2)IFP constitutional-fairness death-penalty due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial hypnosis investigative-hypnosis law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation Is the Constitution's guarantee of a fundamentally fair trial compromised when a conviction hinges on an in-court eyewitness identification obtained a…
20-182 Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent
20-5390 Michael Betts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation
19-7485 Michael J. Aguon v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-crawford-v-washington crawford-v-washington due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gang-expert ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-investigation police-officer-gang-expert prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-hearsay Whether the prosecution's gang expert's hearsay testimony violated Crawford v. Washington
19-6 New York v. Jahmarley Jones New York 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure gang-evidence police-investigation police-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether statements made by individuals during routine police investigations — prior to the commission of a specific crime, the identification of a sus…
18-1478 Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland Maryland 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Does an indication of a drug-sniffing dog being 'in odor' without an alert provide probable cause for a search?
18-9082 Arion D. Andrews v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation evidence-sufficiency fourth-amendment independent-evidence judicial-review police-investigation probable-cause residence search-warrant Can a search warrant properly issue under the Fourth Amendment when the police-officer-affiant states that the address to be searched is the residence…
18-8213 Hector Santillan v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment minority-communities police-interrogation police-investigation prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion reid-v-georgia rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether an officer may prolong a traffic stop to investigate other matters
18-924 Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether any activities unrelated to the mission of a traffic stop inherently prolong it, and what activities fall within the mission of a stop?
18-5255 Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility Whether the suppression of evidence of inducements provided to Commonwealth witnesses violates Brady v. Maryland, where the defense could have used th…
18-5016 George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop Whether a police officer's belief that a motorist does not have a driver's license diminishes to an inchoate hunch or suspicion when another officer s…