| 25-629 |
Billy Puckett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-questions police-procedure reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment by prolonging a traffic stop with unrelated investigatory questions |
| 23-5422 |
Herman Robinson v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment illegal-evidence police-procedure search-and-seizure |
Did the Schenectady County Police Department violate Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure? |
| 23-5071 |
Bruce Allen Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights confession constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus police-procedure self-incrimination standing suspect-interrogation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's habeas corpus petition on procedural grounds without reaching the mer… |
| 22-7691 |
Jace Emerson Fesler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-procedure reasonable-suspicion terry-stop |
Does a citizen's noncompliance with an unlawful order from law enforcement create reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk? |
| 22-1107 |
Officer Matthew Gregory, et al. v. Elise Brown |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights department-policies excessive-force law-enforcement police-procedure police-training qualified-immunity |
Whether the law was clearly established that following department policies and training would result in individual officer liability |
| 22-6014 |
Herbert G. Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search independent-source-doctrine police-procedure search-warrant |
Does the independent source doctrine permit the admission of evidence found during an illegal search of a home if police later obtained a search warra… |
| 22-5465 |
LaRoyce McFadden v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-protections due-process interrogation-rights involuntary-confession juvenile-justice juvenile-suspect police-interrogation police-procedure right-to-counsel self-incrimination |
Whether a murder conviction based on a 17-year-old boy's statements made to police after he was held incommunicado for over 24 hours, the police ignor… |
| 22-5412 |
Clifton Lee Tribble v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection habeas-corpus judicial-review police-procedure standing witness-testimony |
Whether an increase in a defendant's authorized punishment based solely on the findings of a court, no matter how they label the fact, must be found b… |
| 21-1422 |
Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force |
Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit |
| 21-1344 |
Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
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and established the arrestee's identity secured the arrestee in a police car 4th-amendment arrest-search criminal-procedure established-identity false-identification fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search |
Whether police may search a vehicle incident to arrest when the officers have arrested a recent occupant for providing false identification, secured t… |
| 21-5328 |
James Robert Dowty v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-scene-search criminal-procedure custody-testimony due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-witnesses judicial-bias police-procedure sequestration |
Whether the District Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law |
| 20-8014 |
Kelvin Baez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement |
Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable-discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search? |
| 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 |
| 19-1099 |
City of Bakersfield, California, et al. v. Leslie Laray Crawford |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment mental-illness negligence objective-reasonableness police-procedure prior-knowledge reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it held that evidence of prior incidents which indicate that an individual may be mentally ill could be introduced for … |
| 19-811 |
Christine Almas Rose, Individually and as Mother of Jessie Lee Rose, et al. v. City of Utica, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force free-speech mental-health-intervention police-procedure qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit commit legal error when it granted qualified immunity to the police officer |
| 19-694 |
Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search |
Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession |
| 19-553 |
Moussa Diarra v. City of New York, New York |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-bias monell-claim monell-liability police-procedure probable-cause substantive-due-process summary-judgment |
Is the Second Circuit's refusal to apply the 'totality of circumstances' test for probable cause in a Monell suit constitutional? |
| 19-5769 |
Daniel J. Whitt v. Michele Buckner, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance-of-counsel line-up-procedure lineup-procedures police-procedure trial-strategy |
Whether the trial attorney's pre-trial failure to secure an expert witness on eyewitness identification, which was the key piece of evidence that ulti… |
| 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? |
| 18-9399 |
Paul Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ammunition ammunition-seizure eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-original-meaning original-meaning pat-down police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a freestanding round of ammunition identified during a pat down conducted pursuant to T… |
| 18-8631 |
Bekim Fiseku v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment handcuffing investigative-stop police-procedure probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio unusual-circumstances |
Whether the Second Circuit disregarded its prior decisions and created precedent that undermines the rule that officers may not handcuff a suspect dur… |
| 18-8508 |
Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight… |
| 18-7846 |
Reginald Hough v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances |
Was there probable cause for the search warrant? |
| 18-7309 |
Kevin Balfour v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective-sweep exception to the Fourth-Amendment right … |
| 18-839 |
Pablo Colon v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights police-procedure right-to-silence self-incrimination |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Miranda guarantee requires police to inform a custodial suspect of his right to stop questioning at any time? |
| 18-6994 |
Cleveland McDowell Meador, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent-search consent-to-search felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-search police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure supervision supervision-of-search withdrawal-consent withdrawal-of-consent |
Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they obtain consent to search a person's home, then keep that person outside the home, preve… |
| 18-6484 |
Markus Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment pat-down police-procedure prior-incidents reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether factors based largely on prior incidents, some years old, can provide a police officer with the reasonable suspicion the Fourth Amendment requ… |