| 25-588 |
Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana |
Montana |
2025-11-18 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment police-questioning seizure traffic-stop |
Whether a driver who is lawfully stopped for a traffic infraction remains seized for Fourth Amendment purposes when the officer concludes the purpose … |
| 23-6932 |
Tremond Thomas v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-waiver confession-suppression due-process-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation involuntary-confession juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-cut-off-questioning |
Whether a juvenile's right to stop an interrogation is violated when the interrogator refuses and insists that the questioning continues |
| 23-5206 |
Francisco J. Castaneda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-procedure detention-standards due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-questioning search-and-seizure |
Was the petitioner unlawfully detained? |
| 22-5128 |
My Loan Nguyen v. Michael Pallares, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights miranda-rights ninth-circuit police-interrogation police-questioning |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by ruling that the California Courts reasonably applied Miranda-v-… |
| 21-7919 |
Raul Ambriz-Villa, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-questioning search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does the Fourth Amendment limit police questioning during a traffic stop? |
| 21-7468 |
Nahid Kadir Moshrefi v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights evidence fifth-amendment non-custodial police-questioning pre-arrest self-incrimination |
Whether the Fifth Amendment protects an individual who invokes her privilege against self-incrimination during pre-arrest, non-custodial questioning b… |
| 21-6616 |
Gabriel Schaaf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process in-custody-interrogation miranda-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent |
Whether police must wait for counsel to be present, before questioning a suspect who has invoked his right to remain silent and to have counsel presen… |
| 21-6251 |
Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention |
Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the… |
| 21-6223 |
Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop |
Whether the person's race is a factor in determining if a person objectively believed he could refuse an officer's request to answer more questions af… |
| 20-5395 |
Marcus Tyler Sheffield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights police-questioning reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard self-incrimination |
Whether the police detective's assurance to Sheffield that he is free to leave on the condition that he make a truthful statement would lead a reasona… |
| 19-7847 |
Lee D. Watts v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confession-suppression criminal-interrogation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance police-interrogation police-questioning right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression voluntariness |
Whether petitioner's original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6 |
| 19-7392 |
Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement constitutes abandonment |
| 19-5546 |
Kevin Lyndell Yates v. Amy M. Harper |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights consent-to-search constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation inventory-of-seized-items miranda-warnings plea-agreement police-questioning search-warrant |
Does a defendant have a constitutional right to be read Miranda warnings? |
| 18-5436 |
Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination |
Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him constitute interrogation under Miranda? |