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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6799 | Salena Nicole Glenn v. Erin Maldonado, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-12 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrantless-search | Does the warrantless seizure, arrest, and search of a legally parked vehicle occupant without probable cause or reasonable suspicion violate the Fourt… |
| 25-6766 | Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | IFP | arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause | Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented as a valid arrest warrant, violates the… |
| 25A895 | Charles Kakembo Sessanga v. City of DeSoto Police Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Application | civil-rights criminal-prosecution malicious-prosecution pro-se-plaintiff probable-cause section-1983 | Whether a plaintiff can successfully bring a malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when acquitted of criminal charges and alleging lack o… | |
| 25-6753 | Michael Sharpe v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | biological-material dna-analysis fourth-amendment identification-profiling probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment allows the government, without a warrant or probable cause, to extract and analyze DNA from biological material inadverte… |
| 25-6752 | Jerome Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure digital-privacy electronic-device fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant | Does a search warrant need to allege specific facts about a defendant's electronic device and his use of that device--and not merely allege facts abou… |
| 25-6721 | Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-defect | Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues based on an affidavit lacking objective facts, and… |
| 25-6694 | Donny Ray Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant | Whether the 'materiality' prong of Franks v. Delaware allows law enforcement to omit a confidential informant's credibility issues when corroborating … |
| 25-6686 | Ricardo Nellons v. Thomas Gee, Superintendent, Cayuga Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2026-02-02 | Pending | IFP | darden-hearing due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel probable-cause warrant-requirements | Whether the New York Courts erred in denying a Darden hearing and circumventing constitutional requirements to obtain a conviction |
| 25-894 | Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 | Whether a district court violates pleading standards by sua sponte inferring probable cause against a pro se plaintiff at the motion to dismiss stage | |
| 25-6665 | Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-seizure constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process miranda-rights probable-cause | Whether law enforcement violated due process rights through improper arrest, seizure, detention, and failure to Mirandize, thereby rendering convictio… |
| 25-6635 | Jose Amaury Sanchez-Jimenez v. United States, et al. | First Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause superseding-indictment | Whether a superseding indictment cures a malicious prosecution claim under the Chiaverini standard and bars damages for an invalid initial charge |
| 25-6565 | Jaison L. Coleman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | consent-search fourth-amendment police-entry probable-cause scope-of-consent warrant-exception | Whether an occupant's 'okay' in response to an officer's statement about needing to enter a residence constitutes voluntary consent after previously d… |
| 25-6564 | Ambreia Washington v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | fifth-amendment fourth-amendment plain-view-exception probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-seizure | Whether information obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause can establish the probable cause necessary to authorize a… |
| 25-6548 | Nathan Cooper v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the eme… |
| 25-6535 | James Eric Larremore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | IFP | fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction probable-cause reasonable-person-standard seizure traffic-stop | Whether the deputy's instruction to 'hang on a sec' constituted a seizure under the Fourth Amendment for purposes of determining the legality of a sub… |
| 25-797 | Steven J. Hecke v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant | Whether Franks v. Delaware applies to material omissions in a search warrant affidavit and how such omissions impact the credibility of the affiant |
| 25-774 | Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-02 | Pending | Amici (7) | drug-detection fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they use a drug detection canine to sniff the door of an apartment home in a multi-unit building… |
| 25-773 | Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response Waived | criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation | Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause… |
| 25A745 | Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits dismissal of a §1983 false arrest claim at the pleading stage when new exculpatory evidence potentially undermine… | |
| 25-6366 | Jarrett Howard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure fentanyl heroin probable-cause search-warrant | Did probable cause exist to issue a search warrant when the affidavit for the warrant did not specify the timing of the confidential informant's obser… |
| 25-687 | Richard Eugene Bryant, aka Ritshard Anu Bey v. Mark S. Braunlich, Judge, 38th Circuit Court of Michigan, Monroe County, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Response Waived | color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause | Whether a warrant and license suspension issued without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment and constitutes a violation of constitutional rig… |
| 25-688 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Pending | law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation | Does a police officer's observation of an undisputed legal act provide probable cause or reasonable suspicion for a traffic violation or crime, and ar… | |
| 25-6348 | Mounir Mrabet v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent fourth-amendment government-action probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Can the government enter into a warrantless search without consent |
| 25-6326 | Eric Lebron Burney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana probable-cause search-and-seizure | Does the smell of legal, low-THC marijuana provide probable cause for law enforcement to conduct an extensive search behind the internal framing and u… |
| 25-6310 | Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fifth Circuit has misapplied Leon by adopting an all-or-nothing approach to the bare-bones analysis |
| 25-6312 | Fred Baskin v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated by a warrantless search of an arrestee's backpack when the arrestee is in handcuffs and the police lack proba… |
| 25-6265 | Rodney Hamilton Higgins, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more than a defendant's status as a drug dealer and residential address to establish probable cause for a search… |
| 25-6242 | Willie Frank Gordon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause vehicle-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits an impound and inventory search primarily motivated by investigative purposes and purportedly justified by protec… |
| 25-583 | Rodney Towe v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-11-17 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte… | |
| 25-5984 | Richard Vandale Clowney v. Walker Miller, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether a magistrate's issuance of warrants without probable cause violates a criminal defendant's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 25A463 | David Quarles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | border-search cellphone-search electronic-device fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | Whether a warrantless border search of a cellphone at a port of entry violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and sei… | |
| 25-5939 | Michael Georgie Carson v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-10-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's decision conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court caselaw regarding ineffective assistance of counsel and Fourth Amendme… |
| 25-5883 | Leonard James Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment hotel-search law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause scent-tracking | Whether a law enforcement officer's untrained and uncorroborated tracking of marijuana odor through a multiunit hotel provides sufficient reliability … |
| 25-454 | Ismael Bimbow v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry | Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apartmen… |
| 25-5782 | In Re Ramsey E. Clayter | 2025-10-02 | Denied | IFP | due-process ineffective-assistance involuntary-servitude probable-cause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether court-appointed counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment and whether a criminal judgment entered without pre-judgment… | |
| 25A370 | Eric Lebron Burney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | cannabis fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the 'plain smell doctrine' remains valid for establishing probable cause when cannabis odor no longer necessarily indicates illegal activity | |
| 25-5727 | Aaron Smith v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-09-25 | Denied | IFP | arrest-warrant constitutional-violation due-process investigative-alert law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause | Does the City of Chicago, Illinois violate the Constitution by executing an investigative alert opposed to a proper warrant when there is no exigent c… |
| 25-5673 | Daquon Rollo Corrothers v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a citizen from a search of the curtilage surrounding his home when prompted by a prior warrantless search, and w… |
| 25A293 | Martin Renteria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | arrest-warrant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial and appellate counsel failed to challenge potentially unc… | |
| 25A291 | Brycen Dennis Scofield v. Oregon | Oregon | 2025-09-12 | Presumed Complete | emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless search of a residence under the emergency aid exception violates the Fourth Amendment when police no longer reasonably believe… | |
| 25A242 | Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas | Texas | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant location-tracking probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on general warrants by allowing law enforcement to conduct broad, multi-step sear… | |
| 25A221 | Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | confidential-informant criminal-discovery electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-surveillance | Whether a defendant can challenge the admissibility of evidence obtained through warrantless surveillance by a confidential informant under the Fourth… | |
| 25-5431 | Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance | Whether a brief, unverified proximity of a drug dealer to a citizen's residence, without any observed interaction, constitutes sufficient probable cau… |
| 25-5413 | Raymond Ronald Jennings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment good-faith-exception informant-credibility probable-cause reckless-disregard search-warrant | Did the officer omit from his probable cause affidavit information concerning the two informant's credibility that could infer reckless disregard for … |
| 25-5406 | Malgum Whiteside, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the district court improperly denied suppression of evidence and whether the appellate court improperly affirmed the district court's denial b… |
| 25-194 | Dianna E. Webb v. City of Westminster, California, et al. | California | 2025-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment health-and-safety-code probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement | Whether forcible and unauthorized entry pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17980.7 violates Fourth Amendment search protections and requires a wa… |
| 25A184 | Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether law enforcement may conduct a warrantless emergency mental health detention during a traffic stop based solely on subjective observations of '… | |
| 25-5330 | Raymond Dugan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-protections fourth-circuit joint-venture law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the 'Joint-Venture' doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections? |
| 25-5309 | Tedor Davido v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony probable-cause self-representation warrant-exception | In light of this Court's recent grant of certiorari in Case v. Montana to resolve the question of whether the emergency aid exception to the warrant r… |
| 25-5300 | In Re Onofre Serrano | 2025-08-07 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression ninth-circuit probable-cause | Whether the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily concluded that Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of the denial of a Constitutional right, and whethe… | |
| 25-5273 | Jordan Padilla v. New Mexico | New Mexico | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether law enforcement officials violated Petitioner's Right to Due Process when they seized his personal tablet device and held it for 19 days due t… |
| 25A148 | Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest | Whether a police officer's warrantless arrest based on probable cause arising from a good faith belief that property was stolen constitutes a valid Fo… | |
| 25-124 | Theresa Maria Laws v. Borough of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine malicious-prosecution monell-claim probable-cause section-1983 | Whether lack of probable cause as an element of malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 is a factual question for the jury; whether dismissal of … |
| 25-112 | Okello T. Chatrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Granted | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-search probable-cause | Whether the execution of a geofence warrant by law enforcement seeking cell phone location data without a particularized warrant violates the Fourth A… |
| 25A63 | District of Columbia v. R.W. | District of Columbia | 2025-07-16 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment investigative-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances | Whether a reviewing court may consider all known facts, including a radio dispatch, when assessing the totality of circumstances for reasonable suspic… | |
| 25-5077 | In Re Deryl Nelson | 2025-07-10 | Dismissed | Relisted (3)IFP | arrest-warrant complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-hearing probable-cause | Did the state appeals court err in finding probable cause for an arrest warrant issued without a sworn complaint or judicial finding of probable cause… | |
| 25-5047 | Michael Francis v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment informant-reliability judicial-integrity law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-warrant | Were Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when an FBI Agent obtained a search warrant for Petitioner's car by deliberately withholding inform… |
| 25-5020 | Dan L. Bozeman v. James R. Schiebner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause stone-v-powell warrantless-arrest | Whether a defendant is considered to have received a full and fair consideration of a 4th Amendment claim under Stone v. Powell when trial and appella… |
| 24-7465 | Nikky Nicole Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion exists when an officer relies on a driver's allegedly suspicious answer to an itinerary question without further inquiry,… |
| 24-7466 | Patrick Joseph Duncan, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law | Whether federal courts may use state law definitions to narrow Fourth Amendment protections during law enforcement stops |
| 24-1244 | David A. McMaster, Jr. v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search probable-cause protective-sweep-doctrine warrantless-entry | Whether it is an improper expansion of the 'emergency aid exception' and/or 'protective sweep doctrine' to authorize a warrantless entry into a home w… |
| 24-7277 | Derek Michael Mims v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidence-suppression judicial-review motion-to-suppress probable-cause warrant-validity wiretap-application | Whether a district court judge who makes probable cause and necessity findings in connection with a wiretap application may later review its own findi… |
| 24-7247 | Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights | Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and … |
| 24A1119 | Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | consent fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches based on purported consent when the totality of circumstances suggests the consent was not v… | |
| 24-7229 | DeAndre Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether the Third Circuit's ruling that an officer's mere suspicion of a suspect's dangerousness absent any additional facts supports an arrest rather… |
| 24-7213 | Edward Magruder v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's 'search incident to arrest' exception permits a warrantless search anytime agents had probable cause to believe that a … |
| 24-7219 | Martin Devalois v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does a law enforcement officer violate the Fourth Amendment when he unnecessarily prolongs a traffic stop to conduct a drug dog sniff after completing… |
| 24-7073 | I. M. v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-04-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confinement constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-code probable-cause | Whether the Illinois mental health code violates constitutional due process rights through arbitrary confinement without probable cause hearings and p… |
| 24-1093 | Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa | Iowa | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | dog-sniff fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether a dog sniff of the interior of a lawfully stopped vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment absent consent to the sniff or probable cause to belie… |
| 24-7028 | Jeffrey Bowers v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-04-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment identification-procedure lineup-suppression probable-cause sixth-amendment | Whether the suppression of identification was warranted due to lack of timely probable cause determination and improper lineup procedure |
| 24-7005 | Alsham M. Laster v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless seizure of a phone during a murder investigation violated the Fourth Amendment when police lacked probable cause, failed to li… |
| 24-6998 | Eric Ellis v. City of White Settlement, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment passenger-arrest probable-cause traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure warrantless-seizure | Whether the warrantless seizure of a suspect's children without probable cause during a traffic stop violates the Fourth Amendment; Whether an arrest … |
| 24-6978 | Adam Douglas Sherwood v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause terry-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a police officer's stop of a white Silverado pickup truck 35 minutes after a gunshots-fired incident, based on a dispatch alert, constitutes a… |
| 24-6987 | Cornelius Mayberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-procedure fourth-amendment informant-testimony probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Does a warrantless search and seizure of a closed container violate the Fourth Amendment absent clear evidence of intent to abandon, and does a warran… |
| 24-6929 | Michael James Carson v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-04 | Denied | IFP | custodial-interrogation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause | Did the lower courts erroneously fail to acknowledge and apply the correct laws and facts surrounding Petitioner's custodial interrogation, and did po… |
| 24-6790 | Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied the good faith exception to a search warrant that allegedly lacked probable cause and nexus |
| 24-988 | Jorge Vasquez v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. | California | 2025-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Can law enforcement's failure to state any facts to establish probable cause be excused as 'good faith' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 24-6715 | Robert Keshaun Turner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-belief search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-exception | Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of the vehicle search incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement resolved the meaning of 'reason… |
| 24-6637 | Roger Moss v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Does probable cause to believe a person is engaged in drug trafficking per se establish probable cause to search their home? If not, is the affiant's … |
| 24-6597 | Steven Matthew Boas v. Jason Graves, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-liberties constitutional-rights emergency-powers fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | Whether probable cause exists during a stay at home order when an officer observes a person exiting a grocery store and video records police activity,… |
| 24-863 | Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2025-02-12 | Denied | fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops | |
| 24-6537 | Shaborn Washington v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether it was error for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold the district court's order denying Petitioner's Motion to Suppress items obtained through an u… |
| 24-851 | Paul S. Osterman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit-challenge franks-challenge law-enforcement-procedure omissions probable-cause search-warrant | In the context of a Franks challenge, when evaluating whether an alleged omission was necessary to a finding of probable cause, may a court supplement… |
| 24-6499 | Michael J. Baniel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment narcotics-investigation probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether Trooper Colton Derrick unreasonably extended a traffic stop by focusing on a narcotics investigation without reasonable suspicion or probable … |
| 24-846 | Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process first-amendment probable-cause rule-12b6 substantive-due-process | Whether the Sixth Circuit violated Petitioner's due process rights by improperly dismissing a lawsuit under Rule 12(b)(6) and charging him with a misd… |
| 24-6492 | Rufus Young v. Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus-petition probable-cause | Does a district court abuse its discretion when it denies a habeas petitioner an evidentiary hearing where the state record remains undeveloped, where… |
| 24-6458 | David C. Lettieri v. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Second Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-process constitutional-rights due-process false-arrest grand-jury probable-cause | Whether a false arrest without probable cause constitutes a violation of due process rights |
| 24-6423 | Davonte Laron Chaney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment materiality probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a search warrant affidavit establishes probable cause when the affiant made materially false statements |
| 24-6424 | Terrance L. Clopton v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-tampering false-affidavit probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the use of a warrantless search by an officer based on a false affidavit violates the defendant's constitutional rights and can be grounds for… |
| 24-6273 | Darren R. Reiner v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-withholding judicial-discretion probable-cause | Whether a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge abused judicial discretion by preventing defense counsel from alleging potential evidence withholding and whet… |
| 24A668 | Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Presumed Complete | drug-sniffing-k9 fourth-amendment investigative-devices probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to use a drug-sniffing K9 to detect possessions without probable cause during a traffic stop | |
| 24-6254 | Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights email-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause warrantless-search | Did the lower courts err by concluding that trial counsel was strategic to abandon a Fourth Amendment challenge to a warrantless email search, especia… |
| 24A648 | Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge extraterritorial-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits extraterritorial GPS tracking by state law enforcement without explicit statutory authorization or judicial warra… | |
| 24-6208 | Luciano Molina Rios v. Washington | Washington | 2024-12-27 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-tracking fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the use of cell phone location data without a warrant to track a suspect's movements |
| 24-681 | Konstadin Bitzas v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process emergency-caretaker fourth-amendment pro-se-representation probable-cause search-warrant | Whether defects in a search warrant application process, including failure to satisfy the oath requirement, omitting key facts about witnesses' intoxi… |
| 24A566 | Ladonies P. Strong v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | court-martial digital-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment military-justice probable-cause | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless digital searches of military personnel's electronic devices during a court-martial proceeding without… | |
| 24-624 | William Trevor Case v. Montana | Montana | 2024-12-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (18)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances home-search law-enforcement-entry probable-cause search-warrant | Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the eme… |
| 24-6067 | Jerrelle Quintrez Gladden v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense fifth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment-right witness-exclusion | May a district court exclude a defense witness when he will invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to certain questions but undisputedly will answer a… |
| 24-6068 | Marlon Maurice Winborn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity fourth-amendment informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-inference | Does the Fourth Amendment require that even a reliable informant provide police with sufficient information to allow an officer to reasonably infer th… |
| 24-6039 | Charles Derryberry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure weapon-possession | Should the Court require that the purpose of the informant's tip be true before it can be used to prosecute someone arising out of a stop? |
| 24-6024 | Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on the aut… |
| 24-5960 | Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-11-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause | Did the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights through improper judicial proced… |
| 24A480 | Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Presumed Complete | arrest-warrant fifth-circuit first-amendment interference-with-public-duties probable-cause speech-exception | Whether a verbal argument with a police officer constitutes probable cause for arrest under Texas law when the speech is protected by the First Amendm… | |
| 24-5955 | John C. Coleman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-11-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant | Whether the DNA obtained from a suspect without a warrant and without probable cause violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process protec… |
| 24-484 | Michigan v. David Allan Lucynski | Michigan | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | evidence-suppression fourth-amendment legal-mistake police-conduct probable-cause reasonable-standard | Whether all unreasonable mistakes of law by police constitute deliberate or reckless conduct requiring evidence suppression |
| 24-492 | Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights material-fact nonmovant-evidence probable-cause summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Ninth Circuit violated Supreme Court precedent by improperly weighing evidence and failing to draw justifiable inferences in favor of the … |
| 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… |
| 24-5830 | Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama | Alabama | 2024-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-execution | Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry and whether an arrest can be considered lawful when circu… |
| 24-5771 | Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment regarding probable cause for arrest and the constitutional implications of … |
| 24-424 | Raymond N. Bailey, Jr. v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Amici (3) | criminal-supervision fourth-amendment probable-cause residency-verification search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless search violates the Fourth Amendment where government lacks probable cause to believe the place searched is the person's actual … |
| 24A361 | William Trevor Case v. Montana | Montana | 2024-10-16 | Presumed Complete | community-caretaking emergency-aid exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless home entry under a 'community caretaking' exception when officers subjectively believe an occupant ma… | |
| 24-5755 | Wesley Perkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | methamphetamine-evidence motion-to-suppress park-ranger probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the District Court erred by denying Perkins' motion to suppress evidence discovered during a warrantless search of his vehicle on the beach |
| 24-5757 | Damian Cortez v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a circuit split exists regarding the standard for presenting an offer of proof under Franks v. Delaware and the Fourth Amendment requirements … |
| 24-5745 | Brian Broussard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collective-knowledge constitutional-challenge due-process probable-cause seizure warrantless-search | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional and fails to provide probable cause for detaining an American Citizen, and to what extent can collecti… |
| 24-5738 | Corloyd Anderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affiant-misconduct bad-faith criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant-clause | Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly-discovered evidence establishes that a law enforcement affiant concealed prior felonious conduc… |
| 24-372 | William Robert Taft v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-10-02 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause protective-sweep unreasonable-search warrant-requirement | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals reversibly erred by expanding the protective sweep exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement beyond … |
| 24-5607 | Brandon Williams v. North Carolina, et al. | North Carolina | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation due-process false-arrest probable-cause speedy-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction | Did the Supreme Court of North Carolina err in not addressing issues surrounding false arrest, due process violations, and potential constitutional in… |
| 24-310 | Sean Michael McGuire v. Texas | Texas | 2024-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | exigent-circumstances felony-arrest fourth-amendment misdemeanor probable-cause warrantless-arrest | Does the Fourth Amendment permit a police officer to make a warrantless arrest for a felony not committed in his presence where probable cause only ex… |
| 24A268 | Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Presumed Complete | exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause summary-judgment warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to immediately release a suspect from custody when probable cause dissipates due to newly discov… | |
| 24-5513 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith franks-hearing good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant | May a search warrant affiant be excused under the Good Faith Exception when intentionally withholding critical information about prior state court sup… |
| 24-5505 | David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop warrantless-detention | Whether possession of cash alone constitutes reasonable suspicion to prolong a warrantless detention after a completed traffic stop |
| 24-5473 | James Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Question not identified. |
| 24A238 | Gregory Rogers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a passenger in a borrowed vehicle who has the owner's permission to use the car retains a Fourth Amendment privacy interest even when not driv… | |
| 24-5396 | Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | IFP | collective-knowledge-doctrine detention fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether law enforcement can detain a suspect and conduct a K-9 search after issuing a traffic citation without additional probable cause or consent |
| 24-5397 | Bruce Sanford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment freedom-of-movement law-enforcement probable-cause seizure | Whether a citizen is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when law enforcement impedes the citizen's freedom of movement? |
| 24-5381 | Nathan Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-search probable-cause stop-and-frisk terry-stop | Whether the Court should overrule the frisk holding of Terry v. Ohio, which allows police officers to search people absent probable cause to arrest |
| 24-5321 | Terry M. Peterson, Jr. v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bodily-integrity fourth-amendment medical-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless search of a suspect's body during a medical procedure violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches |
| 24-5300 | Shakeen Davis, Jamal Lockley, and Dante D. Bailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrants warrant-clause wiretap-orders | Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly discovered evidence establishes that an affiant who applied for wiretap orders and search warra… |
| 24-5278 | Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fifth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-incrimination sentencing-hearing | Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination was violated by drawing an adverse inference from silence at a sentencing h… |
| 24-5251 | Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale | Third Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | counsel-conflict due-process judicial-determination probable-cause property-seizure sixth-amendment | Whether an independent judicial determination of probable cause was made prior to entry and seizure of property, and whether the trial court erred in … |
| 24-5220 | Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether prejudicial joinder of unrelated counts violates the right to a fair trial, |
| 24-5226 | Terry Dwayne Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof fourth-amendment law-enforcement pacing probable-cause search-and-seizure speed-estimation traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether an officer's invocation of 'pacing' as a basis for a traffic stop, without any ability to show how he was trained to use such a technique or w… |
| 24-116 | Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment material-fact probable-cause summary-judgment tolan | Whether the denial of Mr. Madero's appeal to Respondent's motion for summary judgment was in error, under this Court's ruling in Tolan, as there was a… |
| 24-5197 | Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-investigation empirical-evidence fourth-amendment officer-mistake probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he seizes for criminal investigation a pedestrian walking in the vicinity of a recent robb… |
| 24-5174 | Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | IFP | absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity | Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa… |
| 24-89 | Cory Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure digital-evidence digital-privacy fourth-amendment gps metadata metadata-search probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant-requirements warrant-scope | Does Riley v. California prohibit the Government from searching privacy protected GPS information in the metadata of a digital video labeled contraban… |
| 24-5150 | Toyrieon Sessions v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Due-Process fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-device Mobile-Devices Probable-Cause Riley-v-California search-and-seizure Seizure warrant-requirement Warrantless-Search | Fourth-Amendment |
| 24-5136 | John Michael Murphy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-violation contraband fourth-amendment pat-down plain-touch-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the plain-touch doctrine allows deputies to remove an unknown object from under a person's clothing when they do not believe it is a weapon or… |
| 24A72 | Raymond N. Bailey, Jr. v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-waiver warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause, rather than reasonable suspicion, to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's residence u… | |
| 24-5115 | Jima Brown v. New York | New York | 2024-07-19 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigative-suspicion law-enforcement privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Question not identified |
| 24-5092 | Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | IFP | digital-privacy facebook-data fourth-amendment government-scrutiny probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant social-media temporal-limitation warrant | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent 'all-data' warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation or for a period … |
| 24-5074 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression | Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule? |
| 24-5001 | Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review | Question not identified |
| 23-7824 | Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-balancing law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop whren-v-united-states | Whether an admittedly pretextual traffic stop based on reasonable suspicion, rather than probable cause, violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-7827 | Gianni Montay Minners v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment gang-affiliation high-crime-area investigative-detention law-enforcement prior-gun-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Is an investigative detention reasonable when there are insufficient facts to conclude the individual is a gang member or the area is a high crime are… |
| 23-7834 | Willie Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant unlawful-detention | Whether the officers had probable cause for the stop, whether there was a search warrant for the car, whether there was sufficient evidence to support… |
| 23-7795 | Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the sentencing court had discretion to correct or perpetuate constitutional errors in the defendant's sentence |
| 23-7748 | Jacob W. Barron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compliance-check criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expectation-of-privacy law-enforcement privacy-expectation probable-cause probation probation-search warrantless-search | Did the warrantless search of Mr. Barron's home that was not related to monitoring his compliance with his probation offend his Fourth Amendment expec… |
| 23-7734 | Reshod Jamar Everett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-belief warrantless-search | fourth-amendment |
| 23-1311 | Charles W. Washington v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-06-14 | Denied | affidavit drug-activity fourth-amendment oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant sgro-precedent time-delay warrant-application | Whether the mandates announced in Sgro v. United States were violated in the issuance of the search warrant | |
| 23-7713 | Calvin K. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule false-statements fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware judicial-integrity law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that was based in part on false stat… |
| 23A1094 | Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement probable-cause summary-judgment | Whether law enforcement officers must consider exculpatory evidence when determining probable cause for an arrest, resolving a potential circuit split… | |
| 23-1285 | Shawn T. Swindell v. Kenneth Bailey | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement-entry misdemeanor misdemeanor-arrest payton-rule payton-v-new-york probable-cause qualified-immunity | Was the entry into the home to arrest the misdemeanant clearly established as unconstitutional? |
| 23-7636 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sworn-testimony warrant-affidavit | Does the Leon good-faith exception apply to salvage a barebones affidavit? |
| 23-1255 | Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate of … | |
| 23-7580 | Joseph Moraga v. Texas | Texas | 2024-05-29 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment advisory-opinion contemporaneous-to-arrest custodial-arrest fourth-amendment possession probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless search of luggage stored in a motel closet was valid as incident to arrest |
| 23-7529 | Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review | Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law? |
| 23A1041 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception material-misrepresentation probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the Exclusionary Rule under U.S. v. Leon impermissibly erodes Fourth Amendment protections when applied to search … | |
| 23A1042 | Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | digital-device exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of a digital device based on exigent circumstances without a contemporaneous probable caus… | |
| 23-1228 | Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution | Whether the Nieves probable-cause exception allows courts to consider allegations that no one else has been arrested for the same crime |
| 23-7511 | Rodney Johnson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the issuing authority failed to comply with the rules of court to exclude the judge's signed order of the AEE and deny a writ of probable caus… |
| 23-7416 | Christopher J. Pratt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review | Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), when … |
| 23-7423 | Glenn Francis v. Thomas Scarantino, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights immunity immunity-doctrine jury-trial probable-cause punitive-damages writ-of-certiorari wrongful-incarceration | Can you deny me a jury trial for civil rights violations and wrongful incarceration and punitive damages based only on immunity of defendants |
| 23-7321 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-defect warrant-requirement | Whether the good-faith exception applies to save evidence obtained through an unconstitutional warrant because, hypothetically, if the magistrate had … |
| 23-7323 | Damon Todd Carey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule expert-testimony fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine independent-source inevitable-discovery probable-cause warrant-requirement | Whether the 'inevitable discovery' doctrine requires the alternative theory to be active during the illegal search, and whether illegally obtained evi… |
| 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 … |
| 23-7269 | Willis Maxi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-7251 | In Re Raynada Jones | 2024-04-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder jurisdiction magistrate probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether petitioner is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States | |
| 23-1114 | Charles R. Hays v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | automobile-exception contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether law enforcement has probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception to search a driver's vehicle based on a passenger's perso… |
| 23-1116 | Daniel Creger v. Andrew Tucker, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-misrepresentation probable-cause section-1983 warrant-affidavit | Whether state law citations showing lack of evidence for criminal charges is sufficient to establish lack of probable cause for a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 mal… |
| 23-7215 | David Hueston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege evidentiary-weight fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware officer-affiant probable-cause prosecutorial-consultation prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether a reviewing court may place substantial evidentiary weight on an officer-affiant's consultation with a prosecuting attorney before seeking and… |
| 23-1102 | Timothy Allen Davis, Sr. v. City of Apopka, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process false-arrest immunity law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 stand-your-ground | Whether the federal court denied effect to the immunity provision of the state statute |
| 23-1107 | Joan Ghougoian, et al. v. Lamarr Monson | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-standard devenpeck fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution manuel pre-trial-detention probable-cause section-1983 | Whether the Fourth Amendment's objective standard applies to all claims arising thereunder, such that there is no violation so long as probable cause … | |
| 23-1082 | Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | compulsory-process due-process entrapment evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure witness-disclosure | Whether the admission in evidence of 161 eBay & e to PayPal accounts seized and modified by them with + . so, information obtained from Postal Inspect… |
| 23-7121 | Basilio Hernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | docket-procedure docket-sheet exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement | Did the court err in finding that the good-faith-exception to the exclusionary-rule applied? |
| 23-7102 | Jeremy Lee Koons v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless placement of a GPS tracking device on a vehicle and the subsequent warrantless search of that vehicle violates the Fourth Amen… |
| 23-7087 | Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2024-03-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief due to introduction of evidence from a warrantless… |
| 23-7013 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | boumediene-precedent boumediene-v-bush civil-rights detention-challenge due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interests probable-cause writ-of-certiorari | Is the panel decision in conflict with Boumediene v. Bush, in suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus when a misinterpretation of law is being used to de… |
| 23-6990 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Does the Fourth Amendment permit the issuance of a search warrant for a cell phone absent case-specific facts connecting the alleged crime and the pho… |
| 23-6957 | Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cannabis-odor exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-scope vehicle-search warrantless-search | Does dismantling the vehicle interior exceed the scope of a warrantless search based on the odor of burnt cannabis? |
| 23-6916 | Rufaro Christopher Smith v. Jacob Beasley, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment georgia-constitution probable-cause search-and-seizure standing takings warrant-exception | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's claims were constitutionally barred by the Eleventh Amendment |
| 23-6897 | Pedro Armando Nava v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure industrial-hemp marijuana-odor medical-marijuana odor-of-marijuana probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search based on marijuana odor in a state with legal medical marijuana and hemp |
| 23-6909 | Arnold D. Holland v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure supervised-release totality-of-circumstances | Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to the act of searching or the initial decision to search, based on an objective standard considering the totalit… |
| 23A810 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2024-03-04 | Presumed Complete | border-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border without individualized suspicion of criminal activity | |
| 23-907 | Pablo Pastrana v. New York | New York | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | brown-vs-texas constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-roadblocks probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadblock search-and-seizure | Whether a vehicular roadblock satisfies the standard for a reasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-893 | Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2024-02-21 | Denied | 4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement | Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to open a digital file flagged by a private company's algorithm as potentially illegal? | |
| 23-6796 | Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search | Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search ver… |
| 23-869 | Tyler Land v. Donald L. Edenfield, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-arrest fourth-amendment intentional-misstatements law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-misstatements search-and-seizure warrant | When is evidence of mere presence in a car with an alleged drug dealer sufficient for probable cause to arrest the driver? | |
| 23-860 | Brandon Holtan, et al. v. Mark Edward Nieters | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity unlawful-assembly warrantless-arrest | Whether probable cause existed to arrest for unlawful assembly | |
| 23-6715 | Re'Shaun Lamonte Wilborne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the inventory search doctrine can be invoked on slight evidence when no written inventory search policy was produced and the police officer's … |
| 23-6688 | Christian Alejandro Estrella v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement parole parole-search police-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicionless-search suspicionless-seizure | Does probable cause to believe that a person is on parole suffice for a suspicionless seizure and search or is knowledge of parole status required? |
| 23-6694 | Michael T. Braxton v. Warden, Anderson County Detention Center | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process probable-cause state-corrective-process state-court-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention | Did the State of South Carolina deny the Petitioner a Substantial Constitutional right to a 'Constitutionally Adequate' probable-cause determination? |
| 23A732 | Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt, in His Individual Capacity | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Presumed Complete | first-amendment jaywalking nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement | Whether the probable-cause exception to retaliatory arrest claims under Nieves v. Bartlett can be satisfied by generalized evidence of selective enfor… | |
| 23-6678 | In Re Tina Wagoner | 2024-02-06 | Denied | IFP | arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence probable-cause | Whether the criminal court and law enforcement's failure to arrest and properly process the accused prevented due process and allowed for misrepresent… | |
| 23-6649 | Larry David Davis v. Barry Sims, Judge, 7th Division, Pulaski County Circuit Court, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Dismissed | IFP | 4th-amendment adverse-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fingerprinting investigative-procedures law-enforcement legal-standing probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment by fingerprinting the petitioner without probable cause or a warrant |
| 23-6609 | Kevin McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cloud-search electronic-media exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule can save a cloud search warrant unsupported by probable cause and devoid of particularity |
| 23-6601 | Quentin John Fishburne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov… |
| 23-802 | William Bembury v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Amici (2) | backpack criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment luggage probable-cause purse search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement | Does the exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest permit a warrantless search of a backpack, purse, lug… |
| 23-6550 | Xavier Howell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-trafficking fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio vehicle-search vehicle-stop warrantless-search warrantless-stop | Whether a Warrantless Stop of a Vehicle, Based Solely on Proximity to a Motel Known for Drug Trafficking, in the Absence of any Actual Violation of th… |
| 23-6523 | Mark David Galloway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur… |
| 23A655 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Presumed Complete | cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that lacks probable cause and particularity, despite t… | |
| 23-6448 | Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether officers may cure an unlawfully prolonged traffic stop by arresting the motorist for the traffic violation or claiming inevitable discovery ba… |
| 23A612 | Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference | |
| 23-6355 | Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-12-27 | Denied | IFP | article-1-section-8 criminal-procedure drug-buys dunaway-v-new-york fourth-amendment probable-cause strickland-standard terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-arrest | Whether the Pennsylvania judiciary's application of the Strickland/Pierce standard was unreasonable |
| 23-6352 | LaDerrius Williams v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure due-process owner-driver-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-ownership | Whether Glover's owner-driver inference constitutes probable cause to arrest a vehicle's owner for a crime involving the vehicle, even if the police c… |
| 23-6353 | Robert John Virnig v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2023-12-26 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment agency exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-informant home-office probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Did the District Court err in ruling that the government informant was not acting as an agent of the government when, without a warrant or an exceptio… |
| 23-684 | Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest | Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers? |
| 23-6327 | Noel Garcia v. Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | IFP | absolute-immunity civil-rights constitutional-restrictions due-process false-arrest freedom-of-movement judicial-proceeding probable-cause unlawful-arrest | Did the United States District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit of Pennsylvania err in determining defendants are entitled to abso… |
| 23-6319 | Lacarl Dow v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause suppression-of-evidence warrant-application | Did the affiant officer intentionally or recklessly make false or misleading statements or omissions in support of the warrant |
| 23-6158 | Derrick Hunt v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's motion to suppress the search of his computer? |
| 23-597 | Robin Mayfield, et al. v. Butler Snow, L.L.P., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights comparator-evidence first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-arrest warrant-based-arrest | Whether the Nieves probable cause exception requires identifying comparator arrests |
| 23-6132 | Chamone Ranell Russell v. Stark County Job and Family Services, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-541 | Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity | Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle |
| 23-6066 | Kirk Lamar Williams v. Washington | Washington | 2023-11-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violations due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial | Whether the State of Washington violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including due process and effective assistance of counsel |
| 23-530 | Terrence R. Yoast v. Pottstown Borough, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | excessive-bail false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment heck-doctrine malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrantless-arrest warrantless-entry | Fourth-Amendment-in-presence-requirement | |
| 23-520 | Titus Thompson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant-reliability oath probable-cause totality-of-circumstances warrant warrant-issuance | Whether the 'totality of the circumstances' standard for evaluating informant reliability has been undermined |
| 23-6034 | Alfredo Sanchez Barboza v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment contraband exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause standardized-protocol subjective-motivation | Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine validates the prior illegal seizure of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia when the police officer… |
| 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… |
| 23-499 | Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment is reasonable based solely on an individual's interaction with a suspected criminal companion |
| 23-5982 | Garnet Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled |
| 23-5988 | Robert Benjamin Stout v. Sergeant Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment license-checkpoint obstruction-of-justice probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadway-safety | Are police permitted to conduct driver's license checkpoints without reasonable suspicion? |
| 23-5953 | Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the district court's decision was erroneous |
| 23-5952 | Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Did the district court improperly deny suppression and did the appellate court improperly affirm the district court? |
| 23-446 | Junjie Li v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the slight odor of marijuana creates reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop |
| 23-5903 | Nathan Russell Cates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure dog-sniff drug-dog-alert fourth-amendment harris-v-florida motion-to-suppress probable-cause rule-16 vehicle-search | When the government attempts to establish probable cause to search a vehicle during a traffic stop by relying on a certified drug dog's alert, does Ha… |
| 23-5862 | Benancio Castaneda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility canine-sniff drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its rulings on the continued detention and canine search |
| 23-5797 | In Re Deryl Dude Nelson | 2023-10-18 | Dismissed | IFP | arrest-warrant complaint complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-finding judicial-hearing probable-cause statutory-requirement | Did the state appeals court err in finding the complaint met the statutory requirement absent a judicial finding of probable cause? | |
| 23-398 | Henry H. Howe v. Steven Gilpin, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | confidential-informant criminal-investigation dishonesty-and-false-statement law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard rule-609 warrant-affidavit | Whether complete omission from an arrest warrant of a primary confidential informant's multiple prior Rule 609 [F.R.Evid.] 'dishonesty and false state… |
| 23-5809 | Bryce Jackson v. Tony Golick, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-liability probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Can a person file a civil suit against the government for the violation of the 5th Amendment's due process clause? |
| 23-396 | Bowe Marvin v. David Holcomb, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment in-home-arrest law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause warrantless-arrest | Whether there is a felony-exception to requiring probable-cause for in-home-arrests without-a-warrant | |
| 23-5775 | Suvad Dardagan v. Charles Truitt, Warden | Illinois | 2023-10-12 | Denied | IFP | affirmation charging-instrument executive-branch fourth-amendment judicial-determination oath probable-cause warrant warrant-requirement | Whether in the absence of a judicial determination of probable cause the executive branch of the state government lacks a legal authority to seek a ch… |
| 23-5735 | Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview | Third Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction | What constitutes the violent felony of the first degree (Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury) under 18 Pa. C.S. §2702(a)(1)? |
| 23-5717 | Ronnie Shahar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights coin-seizure due-process expert-testimony forfeiture forfeiture-proceedings import-regulations metallurgical-evidence probable-cause seizure standing summary-judgment | What is the level of proof required from the US Government when it seizes mutilated or damaged coins imported from Chinese recycling factories and dum… |
| 23-5696 | Elvins Sylvestre v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment controlled-purchases informant-reliability law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant warrant-sufficiency | Was there sufficient probable cause for the issuance of the search warrant where law enforcement officers failed to fully supervise a series of contro… |
| 23-331 | James Doe v. Gladys Pisani, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | abuse-of-discretion disputed-facts interlocutory-appeal jury-trial material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that 'arguable probable cause' can support a claim for qualified-immunity,summary-judgment,interlocut… | |
| 23-327 | John Canada v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | appellate-review clear-error fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress ornelas-standard ornelas-v-united-states probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-hearing | Whether the review of the evidence in a suppression-hearing record 'in the light most favorable to the government' conflicts with Ornelas's standard o… | |
| 23-5624 | Charles M. Porter v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion law-enforcement probable-cause trial-court-error warrantless-arrest | Whether the warrantless arrest is unlawful due to insufficient probable cause |
| 23-5615 | Roosevelt L. Linicomn, Jr. v. District Attorney, 482nd Judicial District Court of Texas, Harris County, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-19 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1985 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause warrant-validity warrants | Does the Constitution ensure that a person is entitled to section 242 of title 18 if a person is truly deprived of a right or privilege protected by t… |
| 23-221 | Andrew H. Zoellick v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisprudential-definition mitigating-factors probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether the absence of any jurisprudential definition of the term 'totality' has led to the degradation of the Fourth Amendment totality of the circum… |
| 23-206 | Jerry Lynn Burns v. Iowa | Iowa | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-collection fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Does the State's warrantless search of a person's unavoidably shed DNA violate the Fourth Amendment where the individual has never been arrested or co… |
| 23-5507 | Carlos Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment leasehold-transfer motion-to-suppress privacy-interest probable-cause real-estate search-and-seizure | Whether the Trial Court Erred and Violated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment Rights |
| 23-5490 | Franklin Paul Eller, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search-warrant severance-doctrine warrant-overbreadth | Is severance of any overbroad warrant a permissible exception to the exclusionary rule |
| 23-5481 | Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search | Which legal issues were raised in the SCOTUS petition? |
| 23-188 | Robert Dayon Dumas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response Waived | credibility fifth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Did the district court err in finding no Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation based upon the court's credibility determination on Deputy Denbo? |
| 23-5473 | Arnez J. Salazar v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arizona-v-gant closed-container fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reaching-distance search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search incident to arrest when the arrestee is secured and not within reaching distance of a closed… |
| 23-5475 | Elmer Wayne Zahn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | color-of-authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gross-negligence police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard warrant-database warrant-system | Does police misconduct in maintaining an inaccurate warrant database violate the Fourth Amendment? |
| 23-5428 | Hector Gastelum Valenzuela v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement motel-room motel-search probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the mere presence of a person in a motel room—that officers believe contains drugs and a gun—creates exigent circumstances sufficient to justi… |
| 23-5412 | Keith Allen Shrum v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process electronic-evidence evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-specificity warrantless-search | Whether the exigent circumstances exception saves a warrantless seizure of a defendant's phone |
| 23-5396 | Antoine Clark v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause title-iii wiretap wiretap-law | Whether law enforcement's self-created exigent circumstances justify a Title III wiretap? |
| 23-5378 | Frank J. Capozzi v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation fourth-amendment franks-hearing fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause search-warrant | Was the State search warrant obtained based on fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, and omitted statements |
| 23-5339 | Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation | whether-an-unprecedented-legal-theory-of-receipt-is-unconstitutional |
| 23-5302 | Larry Rederick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop traffic-stops unreasonable-search | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Authorizes Unreasonably Prolonged Traffic Stops and Unreasonable Searching of a Separate Vehicle … |
| 23-5305 | John Vaughn v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception commercial-trains confrontation-clause fourth-amendment plain-smell-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant-requirement | Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment apply to commercial trains? |
| 23-5251 | Mark Edwin Guida v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-evidence criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence warrant-requirement | Was evidence presented at a trial for murder subject to the exclusionary rule, where said evidence was the result of an illegal search of the defendan… |
| 23-5247 | In Re David Jackson | 2023-07-31 | Dismissed | IFP | and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure | Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights | |
| 23-5185 | Yolanda Howard v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Did the Maine State Trooper's hunch that 'there were a lot of drugs inthis car' based solely on his initial encounter with Ms. Howard justify delaying… |
| 23-61 | Martin E. O'Boyle, et al. v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-litigation first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-policy official-policy probable-cause retaliation | Whether the no-probable-cause requirement extends beyond claims for retaliatory criminal prosecution and arrest and applies to claims for retaliatory … |
| 23-50 | Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 | Whether Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claims are governed by the charge-specific rule or the any-crime rule |
| 23-5112 | Kashif M. Robertson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-procedure motor-vehicle-code probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop unrelated-questioning | Whether the State Court's of Pennsylvania Committed Reversible Error |
| 23-5078 | Kendrick Ramon Page v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment minimization minimization-requirement motion-to-suppress necessity probable-cause theory-of-defense-instruction wiretap wiretap-evidence | Whether the 8th Circuit erred in affirming the denial of wiretap evidence and the refusal to provide a theory of defense instruction |
| 23-5022 | Ruben Ramirez-Rivera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-sniff fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether Mr. Ramirez-River's Fourth-Amendment-rights were violated when his motion-to-suppress was denied? |
| 22-7881 | Leroy Henry Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-informant exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement | Whether United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) was wrongly decided |
| 22-7853 | Carlos Miguel Concepcion-Guliam v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to detain and arrest an individual without observing any criminal conduct, based solely on an ass… |
| 22-7726 | Gary Leon Webster v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated |
| 22-1155 | Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine | Maine | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-provision constitutional-rights field-sobriety-test fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-courts probable-cause search sobriety-test | Whether a field sobriety test is a search for which the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause |
| 22-7627 | Denis Grushko v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant circuit-split eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause | Whether the 'reason to believe' standard in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) requires a showing of probable cause that a suspect is within the … |
| 22-7629 | Jose Luis Nunez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether police may enter and perform a 'protective sweep' of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sugges… |
| 22-7603 | James Snyder v. Aaron Krieger, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct prison-conditions probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 22-7592 | Grace Woodham v. Tucker Scheffer | New Hampshire | 2023-05-18 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-communications equal-protection fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by denying the petitioner's appeal to continue their app… |
| 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… |
| 22-7514 | Joshua Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment color-discrepancy fourth-amendment high-crime-area probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-registration | Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle based solely on a discrepancy between the vehicle's apparent color and the color listed … |
| 22-1064 | Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Texas | Texas | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence stale-information | Whether the Texas courts' misapplication of this Court's precedent concerning 'stale' search warrants requires a remand for reconsideration of petitio… |
| 22-7440 | Robert Christopher England v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment computer-forensics computer-search digital-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from the search of his computer |
| 22-7401 | Brandon Quane Hudson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magisterial-review magistrate-review probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Leon good-faith exception applies to a search warrant that lacked sufficient probable cause to support a search |
| 22-7370 | Donte Lamont Dingle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rule-16 fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware franks-violation jencks-material probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision conflicts with prior decisions of this Court and another United States Court of Appeals, including its own, on t… |
| 22-7379 | Igor Grushko v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines | Whether the police entering a residence to execute a search warrant must possess probable cause that the person they are seeking is inside the residen… |
| 22-1025 | Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing | Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened |
| 22-1018 | Jeffrey L. Moeser v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-protection federal-courts-of-appeals fourth-amendment general-warrants individual-liberty law-enforcement oath-affirmation oath-or-affirmation probable-cause warrant-requirement | Whether a sheriff who indisputably did not make an oral or written oath or affirmation to anyone and who falsely signed a preprinted affidavit stating… |
| 22-1011 | Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing | Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause violate Illinois v. Gates? |
| 22-7269 | Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Robert B. C. McSeveney, Judge, United States Immigration Court, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-law probable-cause warrant-clause | Whether the statute 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) is constitutionally impermissible under the Fourth and Fifth Amendment equal protection clause |
| 22-7264 | Corey Shamon McKinney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware probable-cause search-warrant standing | Whether an illegal search and seizure took place |
| 22-978 | Jackie Jackson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether a police search of a car occurred under the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-7180 | Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-04-03 | Dismissed | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing | Did it violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments for the increase in the range of potential punishment to be based on findings made by a judge under… |
| 22-7167 | Quentin Truley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing | Whether the appellant's conviction for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery does not constitute a crime of violence predicate under 18 U.S.C. § 924(… |
| 22-7149 | Eugene Hammond v. Karl Fort, Warden | Georgia | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-procedure dismissal due-process probable-cause standing | Whether the courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim for lack of probable cause to appeal? |
| 22-7162 | In Re Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-arrest | Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested without a warrant and probable cause | |
| 22-7112 | Fuhai Li v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure | Whether the Court of appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is contrary to the decision of this Court |
| 22-943 | Andre Verdun, et al. v. City of San Diego, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-search fourth-amendment parking-enforcement precompliance-review probable-cause public-health-safety search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-searches | Whether tire-chalking falls outside the administrative-search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement |
| 22-7122 | Quintel West v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct reckless-driving sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest | Whether the petitioner's warrantless arrest was consistent with the Fourth Amendment? |
| 22-7097 | Monta Olander Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception gps-tracking leon-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether The Court Of Appeals Misapplied United States v. Leon |
| 22-862 | Brooklyn Zavion Johnson v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry warrantless-search | Whether Petitioner's 4th amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure was violated |
| 22-6813 | Joshua Glowacki v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights | Does the defendant in a criminal case have the right to have a jury determine facts to support a restitution order? |
| 22-770 | Ross M. Jackson v. Glenn Cowan, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 1983 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy equal-protection first-amendment-speech internal-policies probable-cause public-forum retroactive-application retroactivity section-1983 | Whether the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Nieves v. Bartlett and Lozman v. Riviera Beach apply retroactively |
| 22-766 | Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution | Whether Petitioner's § 1983 claim based on his prosecution, pretrial-criminal-proceedings, trial, conviction, and incarceration for an act the law doe… | |
| 22-6773 | Ernest Adimora-Nweke v. Steven C. McCraw, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights class-action due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity standing | Whether Petitioner's in forma pauperis status from state court applies post removal to Federal Court |
| 22-6777 | Fharis Denane Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-14 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | Question Presented |
| 22-747 | Tracy Renee Pennington v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2023-02-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | arrest-warrant circuit-split fourth-amendment fourth-circuit home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause | When the police have an arrest warrant for a person, can they enter a home without probable cause that the person resides there and is present within? |
| 22-6625 | Ledger Lynn Hammonds, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-circuit franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions preliminary-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-challenge | Whether the proper test for determining a preliminary showing for a Franks hearing has been met when analyzing material omissions, and whether the Fou… |
| 22-6552 | Sergio Guerrero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ammunition-possession bill-of-rights fourth-amendment lawful-materials probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment warrantless-arrest | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is consistent with this Court's precedents on the Fourth Amendment's probable cause standard when suspicion is ba… |
| 22-625 | W.A. Griffin v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 22-6489 | Brian Matthew Morton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights good-faith probable-cause riley-v-california search-and-seizure | Whether the pervasive role of cell phones in contemporary society alone can supply probable cause to believe that evidence of a known or suspected cri… |
| 22-6427 | Denver Sangster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-vs-maryland confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the lower courts erred in deciding probable cause, the confrontation clause concerning search and seizures and/or requirements of a warrant, w… |
| 22-585 | Halima Tariffa Culley, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-forfeiture mathews-analysis probable-cause property-rights seizure-hearing speedy-trial takings | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a post-seizure probable-cause hearing prior to a statutory judicial-forfeiture proceeding |
| 22-6378 | Angela Dee Garges v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dwelling-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's determination that law enforcement officers may search an entire dwelling without probable cause or reasonable susp… |
| 22-563 | Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | Whether a jury should be instructed on the core principle that a law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally… |
| 22-6301 | Relonzo Phillips v. Melody M. Maddox, Sheriff, DeKalb County, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-procedure due-process irreparable-injury probable-cause standing state-prosecution younger-doctrine | Whether a state criminal prosecution brought in bad faith satisfies the requirement of irreparable injury to enjoin state proceedings |
| 22-6286 | John Yang v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants based on limited information |
| 22-505 | Tamika J. Pledger v. Gloria Geither, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment affidavit arrest-warrant auto-accident civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process frank-v-delaware no-fault-auto-insurance probable-cause toxicology | Does Affidavit for Application for Arrest Warrant include false-statements-knowingly-and-intentionally, probable-cause, due-process, frank-v-delaware,… |
| 22-6163 | Noel Brown v. New York | New York | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause speedy-trial | Question not identified |
| 22-486 | Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin | Texas | 2022-11-22 | Denied | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements | Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc… | |
| 22-6053 | Charles Skaggs, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search border-searches electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Does the Fourth Amendment require warrants for border searches of electronic devices? |
| 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 |
| 22-5925 | Christopher Santillanes Ceja v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-investigation drug-trafficking fourth-amendment investigative-duration law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Was the traffic stop of Mr. Ceja unreasonably prolonged? |
| 22-5888 | Manolo Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus probable-cause | Whether Petitioner was denied his U.S. Constitutional rights to due process |
| 22-371 | Pennsylvania v. Akim Sharif Jones-Williams | Pennsylvania | 2022-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-testing exigent-circumstances mitchell-v-wisconsin motor-vehicle-incident probable-cause supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search | Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issue a decision in conflict with, and fail to properly apply and follow, binding legal precedent from the United S… |
| 22-370 | Percy Utley v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review pleading-standard probable-cause | Whether the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual application of the pleading standard as to require this Court's correction |
| 22-5858 | Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause | Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the … |
| 22-5863 | Arlandis Shy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instruction probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment unreasonable-search | Whether the district court clearly erred by failing to properly instruct the jury, in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, and by admitting Defendant … |
| 22-5809 | Sirron Moralez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights container fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-stop vehicle-search | Does an empty container with 'THC' on the cover justify an extended detention in a traffic stop and support the seizure of the driver and search of th… |
| 22-5745 | Deron Devaughn Mahone v. Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-application | Whether a reasonable officer would have known that Officer Stewart's warrant affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he should not have … |
| 22-307 | Michigan v. Marcus Martell McCloud and Bruce Cliffin Edwards | Michigan | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | commonsense-judgments criminal-procedure detention frisk human-behavior law-enforcement officer-experience probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop weapons-frisk | Whether the respondents were reasonably detained, and whether a frisk for weapons of a person reasonably detained may be based on commonsense judgment… |
| 22-5653 | Deryl Dude Nelson v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-09-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-hearing fourth-amendment fraud judicial-misconduct probable-cause standing state-court-procedure warrant-fraud | Did the state court err in not conducting an evidentiary hearing for petitioner's fraud upon the court and Fourth Amendment issue? |
| 22-5672 | Luan Van Nguyen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | and whether the ineffective assistance of counsel 4th-amendment carjacking civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy exclusionary-rule ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing | Whether the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits or limits the government's ability to conduct warrantless searches and seizures? |
| 22-5583 | John Doe v. Harris County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 22-233 | Paul Chretien v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography fourth-amendment google-cloud probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence staleness | Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a finding of probable cause for a search warrant for child pornography in a private home based solely, and without… |
| 22-236 | Jake J. McGovern v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception overbroad probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-scope | Is a warrant to search a cell phone overbroad, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, if it authorizes the search of evidence on the phone in addition … |
| 22-222 | Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 | Whether Franks authorizes federal courts to disregard a finding of probable cause made by a properly constituted state grand jury |
| 22-5508 | Hanford Chiu v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections |
| 22-5286 | Jesse James Palato v. Dwayne Hamilton, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-messages anonymous-messaging certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media | probable-cause,anonymous-messages,social-media,4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,certificate-of-appealability |
| 22-5282 | Cory Mingo v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search | Whether the Petitioner was deprived of the effective counsel |
| 22-80 | Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington | Second Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application | Whether the investigating officers are entitled to qualified immunity |
| 22-5080 | Jacky Cardale Mayfield v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2022-07-12 | Denied | IFP | confidential-witness due-process Fourth-Amendment Fourth-Amendment-search In-camera-hearing ineffective-counsel Probable-cause search-warrant Shackling Witness-testimony | Fourth-Amendment,Fourth-Amendment-search,Probable-cause,Witness-testimony,In-camera-hearing,Shackling,Eyewitness-identification,Ineffective-assistance… |
| 22-13 | Nicholas James Imhoff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rental-car search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether a person driving a rental car is sufficient factual basis during a routine traffic stop to create reasonable suspicion to perform a vehicle se… |
| 22-5022 | Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity | When probable cause is based on a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establish the informant's reliability by the informa… |
| 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… |
| 21-8197 | Michael James Bosman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure | Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth-Amendment-claim, when it dismissed the availability of a… |
| 21-8200 | Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance kimmelman-v-morrison privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure standing strickland-v-washington warrant-particularity | whether-counsel-provided-ineffective-assistance-for-failing-to-file-a-meritorious-motion-to-suppress |
| 21-8202 | Eric Watkins v. Officer Shields, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights digital-search due-process fourth-amendment government-action probable-cause property-rights search-and-seizure takings territorial-jurisdiction warrant-authority | Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 21-8179 | Terrance Washington v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether petitioners' Fourth Amendment rights were violated when they were arrested without a warrant and subjected to a warrantless search and seizure |
| 21-8122 | Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 | Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim |
| 21-8037 | Larry Blakney v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether the court erred in allowing the warrantless surveillance and search of the petitioner's cell, which violated his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 21-8038 | Alberic Nault v. California | California | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blood-draw breath-test fourth-amendment medical-condition probable-cause search-and-seizure unconscious warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment always permits a warrantless blood draw without consideration of the totality of the circumstances |
| 21-1501 | Orrilyln Maxwell Stallworth v. Rodney W. Hurst, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 standing | Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity | |
| 21-7993 | Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing | Whether the lower courts violated due process, exceeded their jurisdiction, and failed to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 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 … |
| 21-1486 | Nancy Catherine Powers v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | fourth-amendment premises-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances unreasonable-search visitor visitor-rights warrantless-search | Whether the search of a purse in the possession of a visitor present at a residence during the execution of a premises warrant violates the Fourth Ame… |
| 21-7954 | Jordan Monroe v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment prima-facie-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-validity | Is the warrant herein an invalid search and seizure warrant? |
| 21-7950 | Enrique Alejandro Faz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-responsibility drug-conversation drug-evidence due-process evidence-discovery government-agent probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether it is unconstitutional to derive from an alleged phone call that the conversation is about drugs simply because an agent of the government say… |
| 21-1466 | Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-20 | Denied | 4th-amendment affidavit civil-rights damages-claim franks-v-delaware law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrant-affidavit | Whether a law enforcement officer violates clearly established law under Franks v. Delaware if the officer does not include information in an affidavi… | |
| 21-7934 | Robert Cash Scheuerman v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-05-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment passenger-rights privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search | Whether passengers are categorically unable to challenge the search of a car in which they are the riding unless they can show an ownership or possess… |
| 21-7899 | Francis Paul Sicola v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-7848 | Martin Ibarra-Ozuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collective-knowledge-doctrine constitutional-limits law-enforcement officer-request pretext-stops probable-cause reasonable-suspicion united-states-v-hensley vehicle-stop whiteley-v-warden | When-officers-request-limited-action,-does-collective-knowledge-doctrine-allow-any-justified-action |
| 21-7820 | Darron Thomas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus-petition probable-cause standing | Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to recuse a judge who engaged in wrongful, excessive, inappr… |
| 21-7821 | Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search | whether-possession-of-a-firearm-beyond-the-five-year-post-release-period-is-a-crime |
| 21-7808 | John Edward McIntyre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop | Whether the holding in Whren v. United States should be overruled in cases where a traffic stop is the result of a targeted criminal interdiction oper… |
| 21-1423 | Anthony Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan | Michigan | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | arrest-authority civil-rights due-process jury-selection jury-tampering law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure | Whether the prior secret contacts between the prosecutor and a sitting juror constituted an external influence on the jury |
| 21-7785 | Jose Mena-Valdez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure law-enforcement probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Did law enforcement officers have probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle driven by the Defendant? |
| 21-7764 | Kelvin Jones v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-complaints fourth-amendment marijuana-evidence marijuana-use probable-cause search-warrant trash-pull | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of a home pursuant to a search warrant based solely on anonymous complaints of short-term traffic an… |
| 21-7753 | Levi Miller v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant | Whether the proper remedy for a Franks v. Delaware violation is to purge misleading statements or supplement the affidavit with omitted information |
| 21-7734 | Bruce Mitchell Nicholson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonableness search-warrant time-limit | Does a violation of a time-limit prescribed in a search warrant render a search unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 21-7732 | Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest | Whether the court of appeals properly assessed prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation |
| 21-7699 | Eugene Nicholson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when the affidavit supporting a search warrant fails to establish a nexus between th… |
| 21-7685 | Carlos Delgado, aka Los v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard roviaro-v-united-states search-and-seizure warrant-affidavit | Did the DEA task force agent act with reckless disregard for the truth when omitting material information that militated against a finding of probable… |
| 21-7677 | Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant | Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit |
| 21-7597 | Clifford Idris Bell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-residence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the issuance of a warrant and the subsequent search of a personal residence based solely on a confidential info… |
| 21-1344 | Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | 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… | |
| 21-7431 | William Nobles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war… |
| 21-1242 | Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida, et al. v. Andrew Joseph, Jr., as Natural Father, Next Friend, and Personal Representative of the Estate of Andrew Joseph, III, Deceased | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | article-iii article-iii-standing case-or-controversy circuit-court circuit-court-precedent probable-cause qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing supreme-court-precedent | Should the Supreme Court require the Eleventh Circuit to follow Supreme Court precedent and resolve challenges to Article III standing before resolvin… | |
| 21-7344 | Edwin Calligan v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anticipatory-warrant contraband fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-warrant triggering-event | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with United States v. Grubbs |
| 21-7287 | Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether it is not necessary to evaluate the basis of knowledge underlying an informant's tip if the informant is a police officer |
| 21-7313 | Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly… |
| 21-7298 | Dennis Allen Conte, III v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-03-07 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Did the lower courts violate Mr. Conte's constitutional rights, including his Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 21-7277 | Sadeen Jones v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-03-04 | Denied | IFP | carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery initial-illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | Is this matter so identical to Carpenter v. United States that like that case, this Petition for WRIT OF CERTIORARI should be reviewed, and granted re… |
| 21-7279 | Charlie Foster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a law enforcement officer may extend a traffic stop by asking for a driver's license and registration after confirming no traffic violation oc… |
| 21-7281 | Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process police-misconduct probable-cause unlawful-arrest | Whether police violated the Fourth Amendment by arresting the petitioner without probable cause |
| 21-7274 | Kaleb L. Basey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2703 digital-privacy electronic-communications email-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-jurists search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district court's decision that the initial and continuous, nine-month warrantless preservation of B… |
| 21-1199 | Sally Gaetjens v. City of Loves Park, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process emergency-aid exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry probable-cause standing warrant-requirement | Whether the exigent circumstances doctrine extends to situations where there is time to obtain a warrant or other judicial process? |
| 21-7182 | Ernest Judge Smith, III v. Florida | Florida | 2022-02-24 | Denied | IFP | due-process exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment knock-and-announce law-enforcement-tactics probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-arrest | Isn't the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when exigent circumstances are created through police officers use of unreasonable law enforcement… |
| 21-7157 | Richard Lucas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation | Whether a state statute's definition of 'cocaine' differs from the federal definition based on the plain, unambiguous language of the statutes |
| 21-7153 | Arthur Miles v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions | Can facts observed or learned by a police officer after he decided to initiate a traffic stop, which traffic stop was delayed a short distance only ba… |
| 21-7114 | Robert Noel Smith v. Florida | Florida | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances felony-fleeing fourth-amendment fresh-pursuit home-entry lange-v-california misdemeanant-pursuit probable-cause vehicle-registration warrantless-search | Can State courts lawfully hold evidence admissible obtained from a warrantless search, seizure, and arrest where an officer entered the residence of a… |
| 21-7104 | Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing | Did the court err in its HECK BARR determination? |
| 21-7089 | LeAndre Jordan v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-arrest | Are warrantless, probable cause arrests reasonable when no exigency or contemporaneous crimes are present to excuse the failure to obtain a warrant? |
| 21-7024 | Edgar Manuel Sierra-Serrano v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exceptions fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrantless-search | Has the progeny of 'probable-cause' and the innovations of 'exceptions' to the Fourth-Amendment concerning the justification to advance in a warrantle… |
| 21-6994 | Fernando Lara v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the result of an alleged search of Petitioner's cell phone violated his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 21-6936 | Charles Roland Cheatham, aka Chi-Chi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-investigation criminal-investigation evidence-derivation law-enforcement-procedure material-misstatement necessity probable-cause transfer wiretap wiretap-authorization | May the government obtain a wiretap to investigate whether an individual is a member of an alleged conspiracy, by relying in part upon evidence from t… |
| 21-6890 | Robert William Moats v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights consensual-encounter consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit of Appeals, which held that the defendant had a consensual encounter with police and … |
| 21-6904 | Michel Thomas v. Stafflink, Inc., dba Link Staffing Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-6885 | Miguel Gonzalez Segovia v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment pretrial-motion probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-stop | Whether the Court erred when it denied Mr. Gonzalez Segovia's pretrial motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to the vehicle stop |
| 21-6841 | Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause | Whether 42 USC 1983 can protect a law-abiding educated senior-citizen with disabilities from abduction (arrest) without probable-cause or warrant by a… |
| 21-6788 | Bernard Lindsey v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity | Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner's home provided sufficient grounds to search their entire contents |
| 21-975 | Idaho v. Aaron James Howard | Idaho | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search | When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer… |
| 21-6744 | Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his vehicle |
| 21-947 | Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment | Franks-v-Delaware-violation |
| 21-941 | Aldo Daniel Gastelum v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-27 | Denied | circuit-split consensual-search fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-supreme-court-rulings voluntary-consent | whether-search-is-consensual | |
| 21-6726 | Mark Jason Davis v. Florida | Florida | 2021-12-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether an open-air sniff conducted by a police K9 on private property without a warrant or probable cause constitutes a search |
| 21-921 | Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2021-12-22 | Denied | administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine | Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable | |
| 21-6682 | Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether a reviewing court should ignore the Fourth Amendment analysis and go directly to a good faith analysis under United States v. Leon when an aff… |
| 21-6689 | Daniel Lawrence McGarry v. California | California | 2021-12-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure preliminary-hearing probable-cause sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-criminal-proceeding | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial attaches to a preliminary hearing in a state criminal proceeding |
| 21-901 | Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W. Y. and S. Y. v. Lamont Marzolf | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | children's-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expansion law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-v-ohio | Does the Fourth Amendment permit the search and seizure without probable cause of two compliant children, handcuffed and at gunpoint, even after the c… |
| 21-6615 | Fabian I. Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure | Whether a person may be detained on a hunch after the officer's suspicions have been dispelled |
| 21-6600 | Willis Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation search warrantless-search | Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat… |
| 21-6563 | Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida | Florida | 2021-12-09 | Denied | IFP | coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness | Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's 'essential link' between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a 'mo… |
| 21-6523 | Edward Soybel v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment internet-protocol ip-address pen-register privacy-expectation probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search third-party-doctrine | Whether the use of a pen register to identify internet protocol (IP) addresses is a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant |
| 21-6502 | Bobby Griffin v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-confession fourth-amendment interrogation-tactics probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether Griffin's constitutional rights were violated by the admission of his statement to police and the rifle and ammunition obtained from his home |
| 21-6436 | Korey Stewart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure speedy-trial | Whether a reasonable law enforcement officer could have concluded that the evidence provided to the agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration cons… |
| 21-770 | Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force | Whether the use of force was reasonable |
| 21-6377 | Anthony Harris v. J. Philip Morgan, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the court violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution when the court denied the pet… |
| 21-6394 | Kyle S. Matthews v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment good-faith-exception indicia-of-probable-cause probable-cause prosecutor-involvement search-and-seizure | Where a search warrant affidavit lacks probable cause |
| 21-6395 | Seitu Sulayman Kokayi v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights electronic-surveillance first-amendment fisa-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act fourth-amendment probable-cause standing | Whether electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen under FISA violates FISA and/or the First and/or Fourth Amendments |
| 21-6345 | Jeremy Schenck v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | benign-information evidence-description judicial-scrutiny legal-review paragraph-structure probable-cause scrutiny search-warrant vulgar-slang warrant-application | Whether allegations in a warrant application are entitled to lesser scrutiny when the district court concludes they are essential to the probable caus… |
| 21-6370 | Omil Cotto, aka Omil Gomez, aka Omil Alfredo Gomez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure cellphones criminal-procedure fourth-amendment overbreadth probable-cause road-rage search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-overbreadth | Whether the search warrant was constitutionally overbroad in authorizing the seizure of 'any cellphones' in the house when officers had no reason to b… |
| 21-6324 | Jesus Alfredo Ramirez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure communication-interception criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression probable-cause title-iii wiretap | Whether the district court erred in authorizing a wiretap of Petitioner's communications under Title III and in failing to suppress the evidence inter… |
| 21-726 | Augustin Torres Gonzalez v. Steven Hahl, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest-standard civil-rights due-process false-arrest investigative-procedure judicial-review law-enforcement malicious-prosecution pendent-jurisdiction probable-cause state-policy totality-of-circumstances | whether-officer's-deviations-from-policy-vitiated-probable-cause |
| 21-6175 | Shaun Short v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure disabled-car franks-hearing parked-car probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement extend to a parked and disabled car, or is it limited to its original justifications? |
| 21-6140 | Leonard Morrison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment community-caretaking consent exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search implied-consent law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | Whether a court can find voluntary 'implied consent' to a warrantless home entry when the officer did not request permission to enter and was unaware … |
| 21-6125 | Roberto Griego Jimenez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-29 | Denied | IFP | corroboration credibility criminal-informant fourth-amendment law-enforcement magistrate-warrant probable-cause quid-pro-quo reliability | Did the trial court and Texas Court of Appeals err in their Fourth Amendment analysis? |
| 21-6109 | Jackie Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-authority probable-cause reasons-for-granting search-warrant statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | when-lower-court-removes-waiver-and-assigns-counsel-for-appeal |
| 21-6000 | Marius A. Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointed-counsel criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant wanton-endangerment | Whether probable cause exists to issue a State search warrant to seize firearms, ammunition, and associated equipment, when the affidavit fails to all… |
| 21-6006 | Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant | Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate basis for probable cause? |
| 21-5898 | Ernest Gabriel Verdugo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abandoned-address criminal-procedure fourth-amendment independent-access law-enforcement motel-room probable-cause residence residence-definition search-and-seizure | Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect's 'residence' when they learn that he has abandoned his reported addre… |
| 21-5839 | Antonio Darnell Mays v. Tracy Johnson | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule false-documents false-evidence false-statements fourth-amendment fundamental-question probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the United States Court of Appeals made its decisions on the basis of false statements, documents, and evidence, and whether the petitioner wa… |
| 21-5823 | Salvador Vasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law state-marijuana-laws vehicle-search warrantless-search | When a state has decriminalized marijuana possession and use, does evidence of marijuana use inside a car—combined with nonspecific indications that t… |
| 21-460 | April Diane Myres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the Government to introduce testimony, based only on the defendant's not consenting to warrantless fingerprinting… |
| 21-5732 | In Re Artoska Gillispie | 2021-09-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance misidentification personal-location-information probable-cause suggestive-identification warrant | has-prejudice-been-shown | |
| 21-5736 | Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida | Florida | 2021-09-21 | Denied | IFP | fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement | Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records |
| 21-5691 | Juan Guzman Zuniga, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-courts fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the district court was proper |
| 21-5653 | In Re Matthew Phillips | 2021-09-14 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures | |
| 21-5602 | Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope | Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle |
| 21-5544 | Thomas Charles Scott v. Stuart Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Were petitioner's rights under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments violated by trial counsel's failure to challenge a search warrant obtained via intentio… |
| 21-5528 | Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop | Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure |
| 21-5389 | Juan J. Martinez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-18 | Denied | IFP | admissible-evidence collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause right-to-counsel search-and-seizure trial-counsel | Whether the petitioner received ineffective assistance of trial counsel in excluding otherwise admissible evidence? |
| 21-5379 | Jerome Mack v. New York | New York | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment probable-cause suppression warrant warrantless-search | Does expressing a finding of probable cause in a court order authorizing the acquisition of cell site information effectively make the court order a w… |
| 21-5364 | Tyrone Cammon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson payton-v-new-york probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure steagald-v-united-states third-party-residence warrantless-entry | Whether Steagald v. United States protects an arrestee in a third party's residence |
| 21-5338 | Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure | Whether the prosecutor's submission of an affidavit for probable cause listing a tan animal hair found in a wicker trunk, when the DNA report received… |
| 21-5325 | Raul Adrian Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrestee criminal-procedure fourth-amendment handcuffs law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured | Whether a search of a backpack or other bag that was being carried by an arrestee is permissible as a search incident to arrest even after officers ha… |
| 21-149 | Rodolfo Rivera, Jr. v. John Granillo | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-proceedings legal-standard material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity | Whether the lower court has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, misrepresenting and ignoring material facts of the ca… |
| 21-5283 | Richard Todd Haas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement materiality materiality-analysis probable-cause recklessness search-and-seizure search-warrant | Did the Fourth Circuit err in refusing to engage in a materiality analysis of the information omitted from the affidavits to determine whether the omi… |
| 21-131 | Blanche A. Brown v. Joseph Friel, Police Chief, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-victim-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process free-speech patient-abuse probable-cause retaliation summary-judgment | Right to report abuse and seek protection |
| 21-5265 | Terry Reed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement | Whether the good faith exception to the warrant requirement extends so far as to excuse an officer's reliance upon an affidavit he drafted with the on… |
| 21-5228 | Dwayne Sheckles v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing evidence-seizure home-invasion probable-cause residential-searches search-warrant search-warrants | Whether a person's status as a suspected drug dealer, alone, provides probable cause to allow for a warrant to be issued for that person's residence |
| 21-5224 | Julian Terence Martin, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-5205 | Eddie Mendia v. Abby Harman, et al. | Kansas | 2021-07-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-liberties civil-rights due-process equal-protection geolocation-tracking privacy privacy-rights probable-cause racial-justice search-warrant virtual-trespass | Whether private citizens require probable cause and search warrants to obtain geolocation data, lacking these amounts to violating constitutional righ… |
| 21-96 | Paul Daniels, et al. v. County of Alameda, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights federal-law malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation section-1983 state-law | Where absence of probable cause to prosecute is an element of a federal section 1983 civil-rights claim |
| 21-5131 | Paul Noel Negrito, fka Paul A. E. Noel v. James Buonaugurio | Second Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process false-arrest personal-service personal-use-vehicle probable-cause section-1983 traffic-infraction traffic-infractions | Whether a user of a 'Personal Use Vehicle' has a right to maintain a section 1983 claim for false arrest |
| 21-5022 | Sheron Gabriel Terrell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | due-process fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause suppression-hearing warrant-affidavit | Did Terrell make a substantial preliminary showing that the omissions made by Affiant from his warrant affidavit were recklessness by the proof of omi… |
| 20-8445 | Christian Kalen Crawford v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-29 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure detention due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether law enforcement officers may extend the detention of a driver involved in an accident resulting in the death of another person in order to wai… |
| 20-1777 | Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause | Whether the petitioner was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial trial due to his jury not representing a fair cross-section of his community | |
| 20-1796 | Justin Strolis v. Lucas Heise | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | civil-rights co-defendant-identification fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment witness-identification | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a presumption of credibility to a co-defendant's identification of the plaintiff in a malicious prosecu… | |
| 20-1784 | Ohio v. Daniel Deuble | Ohio | 2021-06-23 | Denied | 4th-amendment digital-communication fourth-amendment identity-corroboration law-enforcement law-enforcement-sting probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media | Whether probable cause existed to detain a person suspected of soliciting sexual activity from a law enforcement officer posing as a minor | |
| 20-1788 | City of New York, New York, et al. v. Jarrett Frost | Second Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fourth-amendment pretrial-detention probable-cause section-1983 | Whether a § 1983 plaintiff may pursue a due process-based claim challenging a pretrial detention supported by probable cause, independent of the dispu… |
| 20-1771 | Charles Simonson v. Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process independent-investigation probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-statement | Whether the court of appeals erred when it did not require independent corroboration of an estranged-divorcing wife's allegations that her husband att… | |
| 20-8352 | David Alexandre v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie… |
| 20-1745 | Richard Sylvester v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | 4th-amendment burden-of-proof community-caretaking fourth-amendment investigatory-motive law-enforcement-procedure police-policy probable-cause subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances vehicle-impound vehicle-impoundment | whether-vehicle-impound-complies-with-4th-amendment | |
| 20-1712 | Charles Paul-Thomas Phoenix v. The Florida Bar | Florida | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline charge-not-in-original closing-argument due-process grievance-committee in-re-ruffalo probable-cause quasicriminal-nature | Whether a charge, in a state bar attorney disciplinary proceeding for which the attorney grievance committee had determined there was no probable caus… |
| 20-8261 | Francisco Felix v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant wiretap | Whether the wiretap application failed to satisfy the requisite Fourth Amendment standard that requires exigent circumstances for an application to be… |
| 20-8167 | Bryan Keith Miller v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception field-testing plain-view probable-cause search-and-seizure | Did an officer have probable cause to retrieve and field test a loose substance observed in Mr. Miller's vehicle, under the plain view exception to th… |
| 20-8212 | Dany L. Brandao v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle | Should the Fourth Amendment prohibit a search of a person's home when all drug sales occurred elsewhere? |
| 20-8180 | Benjamin Ross v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation fourth-amendment pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable, articulable suspicion and probable cause to justify a pretextual traffic stop? |
| 20-1660 | In Re Garvester Bracken | 2021-05-28 | Denied | article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction | Whether the trial court had jurisdiction to proceed and enter judgment without the defendant and defense counsel being personally present during any s… | ||
| 20-8156 | Ricardo Renteria v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r… |
| 20-8110 | Lawrence Edward Jackson, Jr. v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-05-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection excessive-fines fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure takings wrongful-conviction | Whether the imposition of mandatory fees on the basis of a wrongful conviction violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-1628 | Daniel Tekle v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure void-judgment warrantless-search | Question not identified | |
| 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 … |
| 20-1505 | Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement | Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on probable cause, o… |
| 20-1475 | Wesley Perkins v. John Mischtian, Judge, County Court at Law 2, Bell County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-22 | Denied | arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights compelled-arbitration due-process jurisdictional-challenge probable-cause standing statutory-challenge transportation-code | Statutory Challenge ; Compelled Arbitration | |
| 20-1445 | Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas | Texas | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit computer-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure surveillance-equipment warrant-application | Whether the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals constitutes an unreasonable application of this Court's clearly established precedent, by … |
| 20-7716 | Milton Mosley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the lower courts' finding that suspicion of criminal activity was not 'specific, individualized, and reasonable' is contrary to Terry v. Ohio |
| 20-7704 | Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant | Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant? |
| 20-7667 | Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | IFP | 5th-circuit falsified-evidence franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sentencing-guidelines wiretap wiretap-evidence | When a law enforcement agent falsifies and misrepresents wiretap evidence to establish probable cause for a second wiretap, can a reviewing court rely… |
| 20-7651 | Gonzalo Curiel v. California | California | 2021-04-02 | Denied | IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the prosecution must prove that the alleged alternative police conduct was an ongoing legitimate investigation simultaneously occurring at the… |
| 20-7626 | Robert Frank Miller v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver | Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the cour… |
| 20-7643 | Nafis Antuan Faison v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 arrest-warrant constitutional-standard expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus minnesota-v-olson probable-cause standing third-party-residence | Whether the federal court impermissibly added an element to the expectation-of-privacy standard for a third-party overnight guest, in violation of 28 … |
| 20-1362 | Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity for shooting an unarmed fleeing suspect? |
| 20-7538 | Frankie Lewis Jones v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-agreement personal-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statute-of-limitations warrantless-search | Does FH petitioner receive dismissal on a conviction and sentence for violation of interstate agreement on detainers |
| 20-7464 | Stephen D. Long v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing totality-of-the-circumstances | Can a search warrant issue for a private residence based solely on the uncorroborated statement of an anonymous citizen informant? |
| 20-7482 | Lavellous Purcell v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | IFP | electronic-data-privacy federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants internet-privacy interstate-commerce mann-act particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether a search warrant ordering Facebook to hand over the defendant's entire account to law enforcement for review, without limiting either Facebook… |
| 20-7459 | Herman Rosario v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception independent-determination motion-to-suppress physical-evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-application | Whether the district court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence |
| 20-1280 | Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-law fair-warning fourth-amendment government-immunity per-se-unreasonable probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search warrantless-searches | Whether the presumption that warrantless searches are per se unreasonable is so obvious a violation of the Fourth Amendment that the presumption gives… |
| 20-7444 | Toddrey Bruce v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop | Whether the 'absence of additional suspicious conduct' can dispel reasonable suspicion of unlawful gun use |
| 20-7423 | Jose Jesus Cruz v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment destruction-of-evidence evidence-destruction exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Is it reasonable for law enforcement to enter a suspect's home under the exigent-circumstances exception when there is no genuine exigency? |
| 20-7436 | Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida | Florida | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does a noncriminal traffic stop and subsequent observation through the window of a stopped vehicle revealing a cylindrical brown object give rise to p… |
| 20-7415 | Keith Griffin v. New York | New York | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment curtilage fishing-expedition fourth-amendment home-privacy implied-license probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether police can search the curtilage of a home without evidence of a crime |
| 20-7416 | James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights had probable cause to arrest the driver for driving under the influence and wo… |
| 20-7355 | Cleophus Reed, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-7356 | Eron Michael Spivey v. Texas | Texas | 2021-03-08 | Denied | IFP | custodial-interrogation exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause wong-sun wong-sun-doctrine | Do authorities violate the Fourth Amendment when they involuntarily detain, in back of a patrol car for three hours, then at the police station for tw… |
| 20-7312 | Raevon Terrell Parker v. John Pickens, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether probable cause was sufficient to warrant a search and seizure of the Appellant, when the Appellee was only issued a citation for a violation o… |
| 20-7260 | Al Rue Hopkins v. Florida | Florida | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment blood-draw dui dui-investigation exigency-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether Florida statues 316.1933(1)(a) violates Petitioner's right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-7268 | Jason P. Briscoe v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab… |
| 20-7272 | Tyslen J. Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | Does a police officer violate a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by executing an arrest warrant consisting of bare bones allegations lacking in pro… |
| 20-1189 | Brian E. Hardin v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant vehicle-search | Whether law-enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment by searching a person's vehicle when the person drives that vehicle up to his house whil… |
| 20-1181 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review | When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema… |
| 20-7234 | Kerrin Barrett v. PAE Government Services, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | community-caretaking emergency-doctrine exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure warrantless-seizures | Whether the temporal scope of the emergency doctrine governing warrantless seizures for 'community caretaking' extends beyond the immediate circumstan… |
| 20-7187 | Haseeb Malik v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law-enforcement vehicle-search | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit local state law enforcement from searching a vehicle to look for a personal use amount of marijuana in states where… |
| 20-7174 | Antonio Lopez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements | Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, rende… |
| 20-7074 | Jimmy Lee Nave, Jr. v. Frank Vanihel, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-identification | Did the District Court err by relying on evidence received after Mr. Nave's warrantless arrest to determine the veracity of statements made by the aff… |
| 20-7095 | Gary S. Colldock v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dark-web drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant staleness | Whether the information in the application for the warrant to place the GPS device on Colldock's vehicle was 'stale' |
| 20-7078 | Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant | WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA… |
| 20-1053 | Ronald Dewayne Pitts v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit credibility-reliability due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny probable-cause search-warrant undisclosed-sources | Whether a Search Warrant Affidavit that failed to set forth probable cause can survive meaningful scrutiny |
| 20-1027 | Joshua Coleman v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure unreasonable-seizures | Does the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures tolerate a dog sniff which prolongs a stop, which occurs after all purposes for the… |
| 20-6968 | Kenton Lance Light v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-28 | Denied | IFP | abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence that P… |
| 20-993 | Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a police officer may extend a traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff |
| 20-995 | Anthony Vetri v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner its… |
| 20-982 | Sharon Lynn Brown v. Polk County, Wisconsin, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | body-cavity-search civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pre-trial-detainee pretrial-detainee probable-cause search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits jail officials to conduct a physical, penetrative search of the vagina and/or anus of a pretrial detainee without… |
| 20-6827 | Abdul Majid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Court of Appeals can override the District Court's factual findings and expand the scope of a warrantless search |
| 20-6863 | Tommy Findley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-court-review first-amendment fourth-amendment internet-access probable-cause state-law-application supervised-release warrant-application warrant-probable-cause | Whether a federal court is required to apply controlling state law in determining whether facts omitted from a warrant application vitiate probable ca… |
| 20-6813 | Manuel Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest | Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba… |
| 20-916 | Nathaniel K. Hooker v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-08 | Dismissed | adversarial-proceeding criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance probable-cause right-to-bear-arms right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the Circuit Court of Will County erroneously deprived the defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel during his criminal proceedings | |
| 20-919 | Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause | Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest… |
| 20-870 | John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure | Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'… |
| 20-6728 | Jarvis O'Neil Adams v. Georgia Office of the Governor, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure law-enforcement narcotics officer-opinion probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure | Whether probable cause can be established solely on officer's opinion of narcotics smell |
| 20-6677 | In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. | 2020-12-21 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | whether-the-district-court-erred-in-denying-the-defendant's-motion-to-suppress | |
| 20-825 | Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 | Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi… | |
| 20-6551 | Andy Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rehaif-v-united-states warrantless-search | Was the second warrantless search of the car -which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-developed suspicion… |
| 20-6475 | Samer Walid Abdalla v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment judicial-authorization law-enforcement neutral-magistrate particularity probable-cause residence search-warrant warrant-specificity | Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when officers executed a search warrant that authorized the search of a different residence in a different t… |
| 20-6480 | Maurice Freeman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment bailey-v-united-states detention fourth-amendment immediate-vicinity michigan-v-summers police-authority premises-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does the rule of Michigan v. Summers extend to individuals on a public street near the residence? |
| 20-6444 | Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-11-27 | Denied | IFP | cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement | Whether the state appellate court erroneously applied the good-faith-exception to the warrant-requirement despite a state-statute requiring a finding … |
| 20-6454 | Mark David Zimmerman v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree k-9-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment search-and… |
| 20-6343 | Ashley Fernandes v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-devices digital-search-warrant electronic-evidence evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether a search warrant can authorize an unlimited search of all of a suspect's digital devices based on an affidavit describing the type of crime be… |
| 20-6315 | Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | IFP | criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony | Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to trial counsel's conduct involving dishonesty tha… |
| 20-653 | Henry Hamilton v. City of Hayti, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest-warrant arrest-warrants discretionary-authority fourth-amendment gerstein-v-pugh judicial-immunity municipal-court probable-cause quasi-judicial-immunity | Did the court clerk unconstitutionally exercise a judicial function under the Fourth Amendment and Gerstein v. Pugh |
| 20-595 | Dennis Lemma, Sheriff, Seminole County, Florida v. Seana Barnett | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness detention detention-duration due-process dui dui-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | Is it constitutionally unreasonable for a jail to detain for eight hours any driver arrested with probable cause for driving under the influence of al… | |
| 20-6216 | Michael E. Torres v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act arrest criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure investigative-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion | Did the Third Circuit err in viewing the police conduct as no more than a brief investigative detention and thus justified by reasonable suspicion ins… |
| 20-6172 | Yulian Manuel Villavicencio, aka Cristian Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment interdiction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether payment of $630 for a SUV rental in the defendant's home state of Florida to go to North Carolina for a visit, the inability to recall the spe… |
| 20-564 | Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend… |
| 20-552 | Jeremiah Paige Rice v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech healthcare medical-cannabis probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the detectable odor of burnt cannabis alone, without any other indicators, is sufficient for law enforcement to form probable cause to subject… |
| 20-6149 | Jose Sanchez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | Whether an unlawful search of a vehicle performed by law enforcement after an improperly conducted dog sniff constitutes an unreasonable extension of … |
| 20-6142 | Steven Spain v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment gun-rights law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment terry-v-ohio | In a state that allows residents to carry a firearm in public, is it reasonable under the Fourth Amendment to stop and arrest someone for carrying a f… |
| 20-6132 | Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Does Gant's exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable-cause, reasonable-suspicion or a categorical-approach … |
| 20-6090 | Reginald Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion testimony | Can a court determine that an encounter was initially consensual when the officer testified that he did not remember how it was initiated, nor is it c… |
| 20-518 | Darrius Marcel Mastin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | arrest-warrant bystander-detention constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement-authority michigan-v-summers police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether Michigan v. Summers authorizes detaining a bystander without individualized suspicion | |
| 20-526 | Jason M. Blackburn v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer? |
| 20-5960 | Joe Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure standard-procedure | Does a protective sweep of person's entire residence by law enforcement officers pursuant to 'standard procedure' upon their entry when serving an arr… |
| 20-5918 | Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Question not identified |
| 20-5911 | Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-5860 | Miguel Antonio Wooten v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause sixth-amendment | Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated |
| 20-5829 | Jerry Fruit v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search? |
| 20-411 | Traize T. Wash v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states | Whether a police officer's subjective intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and unreas… |
| 20-5814 | Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 20-5816 | Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver | Whether a new theory raised on appeal in support of a suppression motion is reviewable for plain error or under Rule 12's good-cause standard |
| 20-5794 | Scott T. Wilbert v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion | Should certiorari be granted due to improper affirmation of Fourth Amendment suppression motion denial? |
| 20-5797 | Jeffrey Murray v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination probable-cause probation-violation standing warrantless-arrest | Whether a summons must issue prior to the issuance of a bench warrant |
| 20-5765 | Daniel F. Borden, Sr. v. Gary Swarthout, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether exculpatory material evidence that would exonerate a person is required to be disclosed by the prosecution |
| 20-5776 | Joel Thomas Augard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution | Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit? |
| 20-5727 | Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Question not identified |
| 20-5690 | Darrick Michael Loff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the arresting officer had permission to enter and search the appellant's family property, and whether it was legal for the officer to accept a… |
| 20-283 | Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | 4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity | Whether Officer Bass had probable cause to arrest under the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-5589 | Wali Ross v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | arrest-warrant fourth-amendment hotel-eviction hotel-room payton possessory-interest probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure | Whether officers must have probable cause to believe a suspect is present to justify entry into a hotel room to execute an arrest warrant |
| 20-5571 | Angel C. Pacheco v. Maine | Maine | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | any-persons-present collective-searches criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrant-standard | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause that each person present will possess evidence of a crime, or only that the collective searches o… |
| 20-5555 | Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the traffic stop was lawful where the police had no idea who the driver was but knew the registered owner of the vehicle was neither involved … |
| 20-5476 | Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity | Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry |
| 20-5405 | Jaroderick Hardy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause proximity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's reasonable-suspicion determination can be reconciled with Terry-v-Ohio |
| 20-5418 | Danny Veloz, aka Maestro, aka Joil Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-discretion probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whose evidence can a trial judge consider in making a Franks showing? |
| 20-5400 | Gary Allen Kachina v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-5338 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-tip corroboration domestic-violence fourth-amendment police-response probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk | Does an anonymous tip providing minimal physical and location descriptors and alleging ongoing domestic violence that is not corroborated when police … |
| 20-5339 | Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether the reviewing court must use the test set forth in United States v. Leon or the test set forth in Illinois v. Krull to determine if good faith… |
| 20-139 | Bryant Kazuyoshi Iwai v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anticipatory-search-warrant beeper controlled-delivery exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-perjury probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Ninth Circuit majority opinion has adopted a rule of exigent circumstances contrary to United States v. Grubbs and Kentucky v. King |
| 20-5303 | Lawrence A. Dibble v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-review law-enforcement magistrate oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a court may consider unrecorded, oral information provided to a magistrate when evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's belief in the ex… |
| 20-5285 | Melvin Lee Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Scope of search warrant based on marijuana odor |
| 20-5273 | Andrew Hargett, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule required suppression of evidence |
| 20-5279 | William Dale Wooden v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-entry warrantless-search | Did the warrantless entry and search of petitioner's home violate his Fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure? |
| 20-5215 | Jessica Lang v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger passenger-rights probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search a passenger's purse, while on her lap, inside an automobile where probable cause… |
| 20-5230 | Arthur Lopez v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether the seizure and warrantless search of a vehicle and its contents, including a cell phone, violates the Fourth Amendment rights of the vehicle'… |
| 20-5195 | Gilbert Carrasco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation border-patrol contraband-search fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint immigration-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicion-less-stops unreasonable-search | Whether the Border Patrol's use of internal immigration checkpoints to search for contraband, weapons, and undocumented immigrants violates the Fourth… |
| 20-5158 | Alexander J. Silvers v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights detention-challenge double-jeopardy due-process gerstein-v-pugh judicial-determination notice-to-defense probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion | Whether a judicial determination of probable cause in the arrested offense legally justifies the state attorney filing additional charges |
| 20-5107 | Vernon Montgomery v. Delaware | Delaware | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review court-review due-process judicial-duty legal-argument perjury probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing | Does a State's appellate court have to address the contentions of its appellant in its opinion? |
| 20-18 | Arthur Gregory Lange v. California | California | 2020-07-14 | Judgment Issued | Amici (19)Relisted (2) | 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search misdemeanor misdemeanor-pursuit probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | Does pursuit of a person who a police officer has probable cause to believe has committed a misdemeanor categorically qualify as an exigent circumstan… |
| 20-5013 | Rafeal D. Newson v. Superior Court of California, Pima County, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | IFP | breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extradition extradition-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus interstate-detainers-act probable-cause | Malicious prosecution - favorable termination, abuse of process, Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act, extradition, mandamus, habeas corpus |
| 19-8917 | Melody Jackson Hale v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process probable-cause property-rights search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement from conducting a warrantless search of a person's home and seizing their property without prob… |
| 19-8926 | Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review | Whether the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States applies to the search warrant for the defendant's home |
| 19-8913 | Wasfi Abbassi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | false-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant stale-information terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit's upholding of a search warrant based almost exclusively on false, misleading and stale information violated the Fourth Amen… |
| 19-1468 | Brian Anthony Wiley v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response Waived | campsite-privacy civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct privacy private-property probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless entry and search of a rented campsite |
| 19-8871 | Joshua Adam Schulte v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Does an administrative court order that unconstitutionally ends a case warrant appellate review? |
| 19-1436 | Denise DeMartini v. Town of Gulf Stream, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-30 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 causation civil-lawsuit civil-litigation civil-rights first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation municipal-liability probable-cause retaliation section-1983 | Did the Eleventh Circuit err in importing a 'lack of probable cause' requirement for a First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 arising… | |
| 19-1429 | David Pena, III v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-26 | Denied | 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether Texas' Third Court of Appeals erred in finding that the items found in the trunk of petitioner's car did not constitute fruit of the poisonous… | |
| 19-8777 | In Re Garvester Bracken | 2020-06-22 | Dismissed | IFP | article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination jurisdiction probable-cause removal standing trial-court-jurisdiction | whether-the-trial-court-had-jurisdiction | |
| 19-8676 | Fatou Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment informant-tip probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-offense vehicle-stop | Whether a vehicle stop was performed in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 19-8651 | Kevin Remillard v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-06-10 | Denied | IFP | fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress personal-papers probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search welfare-check | Does the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment require a search warrant or probable cause to seize and search personal papers during a welfare check? |
| 19-8596 | Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | digital-surveillance fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-protocol-address online-privacy probable-cause subscriber-information third-party-doctrine | Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to obtain subscriber information associated with an IP address? |
| 19-1327 | Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-06-01 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the 'contents' of a cell phone for unspecified '… |
| 19-8527 | Rodney Douglas Eaves v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment affidavit constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment probable-cause waiver | Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated when an unverified Complaint and Information is used in lieu of a probable cause hearing |
| 19-8508 | Javier Villar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule managerial-role motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement standing u-s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court and the court of appeals erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence |
| 19-1301 | Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont | Vermont | 2020-05-20 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (3) | 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether a police officer can access 'semiprivate' areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant |
| 19-8486 | Quincy Tremayne Bloodworth v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review unreasonable-seizures | Are minott ties and pool people in America provided adequate protection from unreasonable Searches and Seizures? |
| 19-8437 | Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment perjured-testimony probable-cause warrantless-arrest wrongful-conviction | Whether Wilson's warrantless arrest and detention without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 19-1277 | David Thorpe v. Dexter Dumas, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity administrative-acts civil-rights due-process investigative-acts probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 | Whether a supervising Deputy District Attorney who assigned three (4) District Attorneys over a two-year period to a case that lacked probable cause (… |
| 19-8418 | Rupert Stamps v. Detective Paris Capalupo, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | IFP | affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing | Did the Lower Court err or abuse its discretion when ruling that Officer Rollins did not violate Appellant's rights under the Fourth Amendment to be f… |
| 19-8423 | Christopher Gies v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause probation-search reasonable-suspicion statutory-compliance warrantless-search warrants-clause | Does a warrantless probation search conducted outside the scope of an authorizing state regulation and not authorized by a condition of probation, and… |
| 19-8401 | Roderick Delon Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collins-v-virginia curtilage fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant | Whether an officer's intrusion into the curtilage of a residence implicated Fourth-Amendment-protections, requiring probable-cause rather than reasona… |
| 19-8393 | Joshua Tucker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches | Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p… |
| 19-1262 | Steven Eric Greer v. Dennis Mehiel, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-04-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights final-policymaking-authority first-amendment government-entity government-liability monell monell-claim monell-v-department-of-social-services petition press probable-cause retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60-motion | Did the lower courts misapprehend Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Fla. and Greer v. Mehiel? |
| 19-8360 | Juan C. Parra-Interian v. Mike Obenland | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence harmless-error joinder-of-charges probable-cause standing witness witness-testimony | Question not identified |
| 19-8347 | Joseph A. Daniels v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-04-23 | Denied | IFP | due-process exigent-circumstances extrinsic-fraud Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction motion-to-vacate probable-cause property-rights standing void-judgment warrantless-search | Did the Supreme Court of Virginia have jurisdiction to adjudicate the claims of Daniels' Motion to Vacate, based upon extrinsic fraud, and could it be… |
| 19-8250 | Michael Thomas Gaussiran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-searches unreasonable-searches-and-seizures vehicle-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's Right To Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures Requires Reversal When There Is No Evidence To Support Reasona… |
| 19-8227 | Joshua Dwayne Carrier v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-04-09 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4-year-old-transaction 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant stale-information | Was the search warrant for Mr. Carrier's home and computers relying on a single transaction from four years earlier based upon stale information and l… |
| 19-8212 | Santiago Soto-Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop witness-testimony | Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the mere presence or possession of guns/weapons seen in plain view and registered to the l… |
| 19-1200 | Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-04-08 | Denied | 4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Was the drug offense arrest based on the facts of the traffic stop and use of the drug-sniffing dog valid under Rodriguez v. U.S.? | |
| 19-8201 | James R. Householder v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-04-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the police conducted a warrantless search of their home without exigent circumstan… |
| 19-8181 | Arkeem Hakim Jordan v. North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure particularity probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial | Whether the search warrant and the resulting constitutionally and sufficiently particularized, and whether the officers were allowed to use their disc… |
| 19-8131 | Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a police officer can utter the 'magic words' 'I smelled an odor of marihuana' to justify a warrantless search based on a 'hunch' |
| 19-8147 | Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the petitioner's conviction is valid given the warrantless search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 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… |
| 19-8069 | Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const… |
| 19-1161 | Justin Hawkins v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search | Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration—without any additional facts—gives a police officer r… |
| 19-8050 | Cuwan Merritt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-sniff criminal-procedure de-facto-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-articulable-suspicion reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the level of corroboration and investigation required for reasonable articulable suspicion gives rise to a de facto arrest, which requires pro… |
| 19-8014 | Michael Artis v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two persons absent probable cause of crimin… |
| 19-7983 | Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-13 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter involving a violation of the petitioner's Fourth Amendment ri… |
| 19-7950 | Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception? |
| 19-1112 | Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure | Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the… |
| 19-7828 | Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search | Do police officers have probable cause to search a vehicle or box truck without a warrant? |
| 19-1055 | Dustin Moss v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number | Whether the search of a package that was solely referenced by its tracking number in the warrant's caption, but was not otherwise described in the war… |
| 19-7682 | Eric Beverly v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application | Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it… |
| 19-7656 | Michael Huntoon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit computer-privacy computer-search fourth-amendment franks-hearing magistrate probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the lower court can interpret the meaning of words to determine probable cause existed in a search warrant without the false information |
| 19-7657 | Marion L. Sherrod v. Sidney D. Harkelroad, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity seizure seizure-disorder standing warrantless-search | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals committed a reversible error in dismissing Mr. Sherrod's pro se claims |
| 19-7631 | Regina Wolgamott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi… |
| 19-7601 | Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney | Can the state of Colorado remove a defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel (trial and appellate) and use of a public defender due to pros… |
| 19-7592 | John D. McAllister v. Timothy Malfitano, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-integrity jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-falsification | Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the illegal arrest and search of the petitioner without probable cause |
| 19-7610 | Luciano Camberos-Villapuda v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception collins-v-virginia curtilage Due-Process exigent-circumstances Expectation-of-Privacy fourth-amendment payton-v-new-york probable-cause Warrantless-Entry warrantless-search | Whether exigent circumstances justified warrantless entry onto the curtilage and search of a vehicle under the automobile exception |
| 19-7522 | Dedrick Matthews v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether the admission of blood test results w birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota causation causation-analysis criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicular-homicide vehicular-negligence | Was defendant's conduct a substantial factor in causing the victim's death or serious bodily injury, when the accident would have occurred without it? |
| 19-7445 | Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Are all stale prisoners being unlawfully held, where the evidence used to convict them involved state department officials from one county searching a… |
| 19-7419 | Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | IFP | appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing | Whether the trial court abused its authority by revoking a community supervision because of a new honest mistake charge which was ultimately dismissed… |
| 19-928 | Kenneth Fernandez Johnson, Jr. v. Sadie Darnell, Sheriff, Alachua County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights-statute due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause | Whether the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated due to false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution under 42… |
| 19-7378 | Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California, et al. | California | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict civil-rights civil-rights-violation discriminatory-arrest due-process free-speech manuel-v-city-of-joliet probable-cause second-amendment self-defense | Was the California Court of Appeal in conflict with other circuits on the issue of probable cause and Second Amendment rights? |
| 19-7225 | Michael Lara Salas v. N. Vazquez, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure-issues constitutional-provisions due-process factual-background police-report standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police conducted a warrantless search of their home and seized personal property… |
| 19-7221 | Anthony Gray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,probable-cause,search-and-seizure,ma marijuana probable-cause recreational-marijuana search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Does the faint smell of marijuana in a car, alone, give local police probable cause to search the car for contraband under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 19-860 | Nikolai Bosyk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search… |
| 19-7213 | Rodney Banks v. California | California | 2020-01-08 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the arresting officer failed to read the petitioner their Miranda rights and used the wrong evidence for deliberation |
| 19-7164 | Dominic Howard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 19-7171 | Samuel Turner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power | Whether the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? |
| 19-7129 | Brian Moore v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | consent-form consent-to-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights motel-room oath-administration probable-cause search-and-seizure state-courts telephonic-warrant warrant-validity | Whether the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right was violated where a consent-to-search form indicates it was signed AFTER the search and seizure occur… |
| 19-7096 | David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction | Whether petitioner is entitled to a remand with instructions for the district court to order the case dismissed with prejudice because the prosecution… |
| 19-814 | Tony Deshawn McCoy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-and-dangerous fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion marijuana-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether officers can presume that a person is 'armed and presently dangerous' simply because the person possesses any amount of marijuana, however sma… |
| 19-797 | City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure | Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause | |
| 19-7037 | Shannon Bradley v. Thomas A. Cox, Jr. | Georgia | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure trial-court-jurisdiction unlawful-search unlawful-seizure | Whether the trial court lawfully obtained its jurisdiction to be heard? |
| 19-794 | Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby | Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's qualified immunity decisions |
| 19-7020 | Nahach Garay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search | Whether a purported inventory search that produces no inventory can justify the warrantless search of an automobile |
| 19-6969 | Leviticus A. Swift v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment indictment probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the probable cause for the issuance of an arrest warrant was insufficient to justify the petitioner's arrest? |
| 19-6990 | King Bush v. Kannika Say | Michigan | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the marriage based on immigration fraud should be voided |
| 19-7006 | Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additional force, can properly meet the elements of an Armed Career Criminal Act predic… |
| 19-6963 | Roland A. Prenatt v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment attorney-accountability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment mental-health probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-speedy-trial,due-process,right-to- speedy-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the accused the right to a speedy trial, and why the judge and attorney can waive this… |
| 19-6890 | Kevin Lamont Pearson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | district-court due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure final-revocation-hearing magistrate-judge probable-cause procedural-review revocation-hearing rule-32.1 standing | Does the plain text of Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure bar a district court from considering an alleged violation at a final revo… |
| 19-6887 | In Re Brad K. Edmonds | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless GPS tracking of a vehicle, and whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision … | |
| 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… |
| 19-693 | Peter Balov v. California | California | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | blood-alcohol-content blood-draw coercion consent dui fourth-amendment officer-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure | Is a motorist's consent to a blood draw, for purposes of determining blood-alcohol content, voluntary within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment where… |
| 19-6766 | Miles Barton Nichols v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant | Whether a finding of recklessness should be inferred where omissions are critical to probable cause |
| 19-6753 | Benitez Auguarius Moody v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-challenge deliberate-falsehood due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware intentional-falsehoods intentional-falsity probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the characterization of deliberate falsehoods in a search warrant affidavit as mere imprecision eviscerates the right of a defendant as enunci… |
| 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 |
| 19-6603 | Dijon Rasheed Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant controlled-delivery drug-possession fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the mere placing of a package containing drugs on a person's property, then executing the warrant when any pers… |
| 19-6578 | John Garrett Smith v. Washington | Washington | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause standing | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 19-6585 | Gelu Topa v. Almonte Kerbs, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | IFP | arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct probable-cause public-defender subpoena video-evidence | Why was there no video of the arrest/incident? |
| 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… |
| 19-6522 | William Smith v. Texas | Texas | 2019-11-07 | Denied | IFP | blood-draw constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-interpretation mandatory-blood-draw missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause public-safety search-and-seizure texas-transportation-code warrantless-search | Was the Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers' mandatory blood draw constitutional under the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by Missouri v. McNee… |
| 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? |
| 19-541 | Michael Lambert v. Estate of Kevin Brown, by its Successor in Interest Rebecca Brown, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | cold-case criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence exigent-circumstances false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violations murder-case probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant third-party | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant to search a home based on probable cause and exigent circumstances when the home is owned by a third p… | |
| 19-6343 | Antoine Richmond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Did law enforcement's suspicion that a firearm would be found just inside the threshold of the home justify their search? |
| 19-513 | Aivaras Mardosas v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response Waived | bare-bones-affidavit collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant suppression-of-evidence | Whether the 'fellow officer rule' can justify a search warrant with flawed probable cause |
| 19-6319 | Antonio Bogan v. Jeffrey German, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement owner-knowledge probable-cause stare-decisis vehicle-seizure warrantless-search | Whether probable cause to effect a warrantless seizure of a vehicle is equivalent to officers' knowledge of an arrestee being its owner? |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 19-6202 | Manuel Rodriguez-Santana v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | affidavit constitutional-procedure criminal-complaint criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment magistrate magistrate-review probable-cause | Whether the District Court Violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendment; Federal Rule Criminal Procedure |
| 19-6241 | Elfred William Petruk v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant confidential-informants drug-evidence eighth-circuit fourth-amendment gps-tracking gps-tracking-warrants illinois-v-gates probable-cause search-warrant stale-information | Did the Eighth Circuit erroneously rule, in conflict with this Court's decision in Illinois v. Gates, that the search warrant for a Chrysler vehicle a… |
| 19-6187 | Jon Kaiser v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affiant-misconduct affidavit child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review lascivious-exhibition magistrate-judge probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether an intentional or reckless omission of purported child pornography images from a search warrant application undermines a finding of probable c… |
| 19-6095 | Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement | Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva… |
| 19-384 | Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights compelled-commerce compelled-consent consent-doctrine due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause seizure transfer-of-venue transportation-code vehicle-definition | Question not identified |
| 19-5972 | Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari | Was petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protection violated without probable cause, when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order… |
| 19-5915 | Steven J. Varnauskas v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-09-11 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment license-plate probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-violation vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a bicycle rack attached to the rear of a vehicle was stowed accordingly and correctly to the manufacturer's instructions and does not obscure … |
| 19-5886 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 | Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 19-5887 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. John Doe | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights disclosure-of-corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 standing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 19-5774 | Patrick O. Neiss v. Montana | Montana | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment holland-v-united-states jury-instruction jury-instructions net-worth-prosecution particularity presumption-of-innocence probable-cause reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure | Should this lack of clarity be resolved by this Court? |
| 19-5815 | Antonio Demetrius Parker v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-imprisonment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement | Did the Supreme court of Virginia err when it determined that the circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to give the petitioner the relief sought … |
| 19-5801 | Emory Chiles v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-279 | Shirley Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | advice-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-alteration evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause | whether-due-process-clause-permits-judgment-to-stand-when-court-altered-evidence | |
| 19-5782 | Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory | Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole and … |
| 19-5795 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when an affidavit supporting a search warrant had been tainted by evidence obtained … |
| 19-272 | Willie Lee Cooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response Waived | emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy home-search probable-cause reasonable-belief warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the emergency-aid exception permits a warrantless, nonconsensual search of a private home based upon officers' inability to 'rule out the poss… |
| 19-5606 | Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing | Did the trial court err by admitting into evidence the illegally obtained wiretap recordings of the defendant's phone conversations with an undercover… |
| 19-5689 | Benjamin Oshea Calhoun v. Tony Villa, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-recusal judicial-supervision legal-authority motion-to-dismiss probable-cause standing warrantless-arrest | Whether the Appellant court's ruling to uphold the District Court's order which granted defendants' motions to dismiss conflicts with the Supreme Cour… |
| 19-5676 | Jerel Leon Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment giglio-impeachment giglio-v-united-states good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether a district court may consider evidence outside the warrant affidavit in determining good-faith exception |
| 19-202 | Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington | Washington | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search | Whether it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment for States to charge and convict a person of obstruction for passively refusing to open the door to … |
| 19-5596 | Eric T. Latham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search | Whether the search incident to arrest exception permits police officers to conduct a search based on probable cause for a minor traffic offense and bo… |
| 19-5602 | Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | IFP | administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the petitioner's federal habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. Section 2241 rather than under Titl… |
| 19-5582 | Tuan Duc Lam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search | Can a warrantless search of a person be 'incident to arrest' where, at the time of the search, no arrest has occurred, and the objective evidence fail… |
| 19-188 | Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton | Whether the allegations establish a Fourth Amendment violation and qualified immunity defense | |
| 19-156 | Diego Baldemar Islas v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | blood-seizure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware misleading-by-commission misleading-by-omission probable-cause schmerber-v-california search-and-seizure warrant-requirements | Does the holding of Franks v. Delaware forbid misleading by omission as well as misleading by commission? |
| 19-5431 | DeAndre Cherry v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause? |
| 19-5414 | Arthur Whitley v. Texas | Texas | 2019-07-31 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent | Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel… |
| 19-5347 | Joshua Frederick Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-sniff due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether the Court should revisit Florida v. Harris to clarify what the dog's 'alert' means and whether the dog is trained to display an alert for any … |
| 19-5326 | Sean Frederik Franke v. Florida | Florida | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-extraction civil-rights drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether law enforcement officers can rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendme… |
| 19-5343 | Amoire Dupree v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree incident-to-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav… |
| 19-88 | Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | Can an unverified tip constitute probable cause for arrest? |
| 19-5180 | Lesa L. Chaney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation government-agents probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrant | Whether a generally worded warrant permitting government agents to rummage through and seize papers, documents and records for which no probable cause… |
| 19-5181 | Lamar Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | GVR | IFP | arrest-procedure circuit-split custodial-arrest felon-in-possession fourth-amendment probable-cause rehaif-v-united-states search-incident-exception search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless search may be upheld under the search-incident-to-arrest exception when the search precedes the arrest |
| 19-5173 | Johnny Kirkland v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-device fourth-amendment patent probable-cause standing takings unreasonable-search warrantless-search | Whether Hunks nian 'EM As Kncocpyehion Was Ned h\\igence Under Nesse\\ Quoner + |
| 19-5131 | Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | statute-of-limitations |
| 19-5122 | David Alan Westerfield v. California | California | 2019-07-09 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial de-novo-review due-process due-process-review fourth-amendment independent-review jury-sequestration polygraph-evidence pretrial-publicity probable-cause sheppard-v-maxwell standard-of-review | Does the mandate announced in Sheppard v. Maxwell apply to the appellate assessment of the trial court's rejection of jury sequestration? |
| 19-5035 | Calvin James v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trial witness | Do officers need consent to search private property without a search warrant? |
| 18-1573 | Zsolt Petko, et al. v. Carelton Courtyard | Texas | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process justice-of-peace justice-of-the-peace legal-action probable-cause property-rights texas-law texas-rules-of-civil-procedure towing towing-law | Does towing a person's car constitute a legal action? |
| 18-1577 | Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams | Pennsylvania | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of the 4th Amendment |
| 18-9785 | Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search | Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court dismissed his criminal case despite evidence of se… |
| 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… |
| 18-9775 | Dustin Washington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the trial court erred in denying Mr. Washington's motion to suppress the search of the BMW |
| 18-9756 | Hector Guadalupe Lozano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-possession odor-detection probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether a drug dog's alert, standing alone, is sufficient to establish probable cause to search when the dog is known to react to the odor of a substa… |
| 18-9722 | Jonathan Edward Meier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-detention pat-down probable-cause prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure unreasonable-search weapons-search | Whether law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when it holds an individual for a prolonged period… |
| 18-9708 | Brad Smith v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois consent-search consent-to-search curtilage exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause | Was petitioner's consent to search following law enforcement agents' unconstitutional entry into the curtilage of his home sufficiently attenuated fro… |
| 18-9655 | Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit affidavit-accuracy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure detective-misconduct fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez probable-cause warrant warrant-preparation | Whether the dictates of Groh v. Ramirez were violated when the Detective in this case did not have all the correct facts when preparing a probable cau… |
| 18-9694 | Oliver Douce v. New York | New York | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under … |
| 18-9606 | Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-06-11 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination | Whether the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized without probable cause |
| 18-9612 | Gregory Rayford v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing | Whether the Illinois state court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-1524 | Michelle MacDonald Shimota, et vir v. Bob Wegner, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech probable-cause retaliation retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution | Does the district court's dismissal of claims, including First Amendment retaliatory-arrest and prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on probable c… |
| 18-9515 | Brandon Christopher Pierre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights conviction-and-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction malicious-prosecution probable-cause | Under what circumstances can a federal court falsely and wrongfully indict, arrest, imprison, convict, and sentence an individual under the 'color of … |
| 18-9561 | In Re Benny Stewart | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-procedure due-process due-process,recusal,probable-cause,felony-prosecut felony-prosecution information judge-recusal judicial-bias judicial-recusal probable-cause prosecutorial-discretion recusal state-law | Whether the potential for bias and lack of impartiality when a judge makes probable cause determinations and presides over all proceedings in a felony… | |
| 18-9565 | Casey Stoermer v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless search of Stoermer's apartment was justified despite the lack of exigent circumstances |
| 18-9553 | Marvin Eugene Jones v. California | California | 2019-06-05 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions | Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-9530 | Terry Margheim v. Kenneth Buck, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | IFP | favorable-termination fourth-amendment innocence legal-process malice probable-cause supreme-court-precedent unlawful-seizure | Are malice and favorable termination indicative of innocence, necessary elements to prove a violation of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-9478 | David Rothenberg v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mens-rea plea-bargaining probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit probation prosecutorial-misconduct | Is the use by the prosecutor of a 'probable cause affidavit' containing averments contradictory to the alleged victim's own sworn statement to charge … |
| 18-9483 | Brian Alford v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | IFP | burglary burglary-allegation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder legal-sufficiency probable-cause prosecution-standard sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether it is permissible for a state criminal court to predicate felony murder liability on an allegation of burglary that lacks sufficient bases in … |
| 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? |
| 18-9422 | Davaus L. McCown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment controlled-buys criminal-pattern criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-enterprise drug-sales fourth-amendment ongoing-activity ongoing-criminal-activity probable-cause probable-cause-search search-and-seizure search-warrant stale-information | Whether two police-orchestrated, controlled buys demonstrate an ongoing pattern of drug sales sufficient to support probable cause for an otherwise-st… |
| 18-9393 | Tarell McIlwain v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav… |
| 18-9397 | Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search | Whether a state trial court's jury instruction that reduces the burden of proof or violates a principle of fairness contained in the due process claus… |
| 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… |
| 18-9278 | In Re Edmond McClinton | 2019-05-17 | Dismissed | IFP | actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-due-process lack-of-jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct | There was no probable cause for arrest | |
| 18-9305 | Joshua Chapman-Sexton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the inevitable discovery exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 18-9225 | Michael Otho Raihala v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-05-10 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-detention due-process pre-accusation-detention probable-cause state-agent-liability | Whether it is constitutional for state and local agents to detain a citizen indefinitely without probable cause or process as a pre-accusation detaine… |
| 18-1408 | John Washek v. Vermont | Vermont | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop | Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations muc… |
| 18-9193 | Artez Brewer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-limitations warrant-requirements | Whether federal law enforcement exceeds the limitations on the face of the warrant for GPS tracking to in-state monitoring and continues to monitor an… |
| 18-9174 | Warren Myles v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-05-07 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-history due-process federalism law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause reciprocity state-reciprocity state-rights welfare-check | Does the State of Nebraska have the option to respect some but not other states' concealed carry permits? |
| 18-9131 | Ryan Canfield v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment | Must impoundment be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, or conducted pursuant to standardized procedures, or both? |
| 18-1372 | City of Newark, New Jersey v. Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. | Third Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | civil-rights consent-decree constitutional-violation false-arrest malicious-prosecution monell monell-claim probable-cause res-judicata | Whether dismissal of a Monell claim is proper where all underlying claims against officers have been dismissed | |
| 18-9058 | Juan L. Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights consent fourth-amendment home-search lawful-arrest probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the search of a person's home and belongings when the pers… |
| 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… |
| 18-9036 | Gregory Tarrel Brown v. Virginia, et al. | Virginia | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were violated |
| 18-9050 | Roland Kailihiwa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-alert contamination drug-detection drug-detection-canine expert-testimony probable-cause residual-odor search-and-seizure search-warrant training | Whether Mervin's positive alert on a parcel shipped to Hawaii, given his unsophisticated training and the possibility of contamination, suffices to es… |
| 18-9022 | Maurice Edward Carter v. Mike Parris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-circuit | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision to deny Mr. Carter's habeas corpus relief misconstrued meritorious unresolve… |
| 18-1344 | LaMarcus Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application | Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, (2) only that information … | |
| 18-8893 | Mark M. Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review criminal-procedure impairment mental-capacity mental-impairment probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-motion trustworthiness warrant warrant-issuance witness witness-credibility witness-testimony | Does probable cause to issue a warrant extend to situations where a witness to alleged criminal behavior was severely impaired? |
| 18-1316 | Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim | Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the… |
| 18-8851 | Lester James Smith v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt-to-elude criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process equal-protection evidence-collection federalism investigative-techniques law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing single-incident single-jurisdiction | Whether the State of Georgia erred in sentencing Mr. Smith to multiple punishments for a single criminal act of attempt to elude police |
| 18-8873 | Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental | Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th… |
| 18-8849 | Keith Andre Robinson v. H. White, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Did the District Court err in finding that no exigent circumstances were present to justify the warrantless search and seizure of Petitioner's home an… |
| 18-8797 | Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard | Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-8754 | Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska | Alaska | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop | Should civil penalties be imposed on petitioner for refusal to submit to a breath test when an intrusive blood test was administered |
| 18-8667 | Donald James Anson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance | Does an appellate court err in dismissing an appeal because 'it lacks an arguable basis in law or fact' without first providing the petitioner an oppo… |
| 18-8668 | Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-04-02 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law | Was COA17-1134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? |
| 18-8650 | Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure | When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio… |
| 18-8602 | Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing | Whether Franks v. Delaware should be revisited to allow sanctions for false affiant declarations even if there remains probable cause in the absence o… |
| 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… |
| 18-8593 | Dontae Callen v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit | Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, can a reviewing court consider information from … |
| 18-1247 | Robert Alan Ries v. Oregon | Oregon | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit blood-sample constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | Does a warrant commanding the police to seize a blood sample from a person with an entirely different name than the defendant violate the Fourth Amend… |
| 18-1248 | Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc… |
| 18-1230 | Juan Zamudio v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the … | |
| 18-1219 | Illinois v. Derrick Bonilla | Illinois | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Amici (1) | apartment apartment-building apartment-search common-area dog-sniff drug-detection-dog exclusionary-rule florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether a sniff by a drug-detection dog conducted in the common area of an apartment building is a Fourth Amendment search under Florida v. Jardines |
| 18-8448 | Edward Bishop v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-1188 | Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision | Whether it is reasonable for police to infer that a driver was intoxicated at the time of a collision based solely on the fact that the driver was fou… |
| 18-8361 | Arturo Sarli v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search | Whether consent to search comes to a natural end after a thorough and fruitless search has been conducted or may officers use the initial consent to s… |
| 18-8377 | Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure | Whether the officers had reasonable suspicion to seize Mr. Booker Shabazzallah? |
| 18-1157 | Edwin A. Vega v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-07 | Denied | detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure united-states-v-ross usps vehicle-search | Did the Ohio Supreme Court reverse Rodriguez v. United States and permit unlawful detention and search in violation of the Fourth Amendment? | |
| 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… |
| 18-8126 | Ronnie W. Wilson v. Michael Stephan, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vawa | Should the VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) charges against the petitioner be dismissed because the arrest warrants were not signed? |
| 18-8054 | Michael Kenneth Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out of… |
| 18-7965 | Daniel Stewart v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Claim Miranda-Rights probable-cause Right-to-Counsel rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure standing Suspicionless-Surveillance warrantless-search Warrantless-Searches | Whether the warrantless searches of petitioner's person and his motor vehicle were in clear violation of his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 18-7982 | Obelin Jaimes-Aviles v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-14 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's vehicle and its contents violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sea… |
| 18-1063 | John Cottam v. Douglas Pelton | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress fabricated-evidence false-arrest law-enforcement-fabrication malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity rule-56 summary-judgment | Whether law enforcement fabrication of a felony charge against an innocent citizen precludes summary judgment on a false arrest claim | |
| 18-7914 | Jay Maurice Tharps v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-informant drug-trafficking fourth-amendment leon-exception leon-good-faith-exception partially-rotten-fruit probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in determining that probable cause existed |
| 18-7933 | Keith Charleston v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-miranda due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights premeditated-murder probable-cause self-defense self-incrimination warrantless-arrest | Whether petitioner's statement was unconstitutionally obtained due to intoxication and lack of sleep preventing a knowing and intelligent Miranda waiv… |
| 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 | |
| 18-7846 | 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? |
| 18-1024 | Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | 4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application | Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause | |
| 18-7746 | Joseph Davis v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure | Whether errors in an inventory search report are indicative of a 'ruse' under Florida v. Wells, thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered during… |
| 18-1006 | Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search | Michael-Kevin-Adams |
| 18-7711 | Christopher Fitzgerald v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-affidavit | Does the 'good faith' exception to the exclusionary rule apply to uphold a search |
| 18-7619 | Michael Scott Morris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment coercion consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-coercion probable-cause search-and-seizure voluntary-consent warrant-requirement | Is consent to search a home freely and voluntarily given when police threaten arrest and jail if they are required to obtain a search warrant? |
| 18-7683 | Deandre Anderson v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-rights new-evidence post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief probable-cause standing statute-of-limitations trial-errors wrongful-conviction | Does the cases stated apply to this case? |
| 18-7653 | Lonzo Bonner v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-01-29 | Denied | IFP | brady-material due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether petitioner was deprived of his state and federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process of law |
| 18-7527 | David Phillip Wilson v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-01-23 | Denied | IFP | brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation co-defendant-statement criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kaupp-v-texas probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct wong-sun-v-united-states | Whether the prosecution's failure to provide Brady evidence is excused by trial counsel's lack of diligence in pursuing that evidence, and whether Mr.… |
| 18-7534 | Tylon Hudson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment parolee probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure warrant | Does a Police officer who without reasonable belief that a parolee is inside his residence and repeatedly enters the parolee's unoccupied residence, i… |
| 18-917 | Michael S. Bent v. Pamela Talkin, Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights courthouse-procedures due-process police-booth police-powers probable-cause separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority | Does the Chief of Police's Police Booth Operation violate the right to be secure in papers and due process? |
| 18-900 | Philip Zodhiates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure good-faith-exception international-parental-kidnapping probable-cause warrant-requirement | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule allows use at trial of cell-site location information illegally seized by a prosecutor prior… |
| 18-7294 | Sergio Antonio Zambrano v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment pat-down probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search warrantless-searches | Whether a police officer may reach into an individual's pockets and remove objects during a Terry stop if the officer cannot determine through a pat-d… |
| 18-7248 | Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition |
| 18-7251 | Consuelo Jordan v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings | Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-7256 | Amin De Castro v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop | whether a reasonable person would feel free to refuse a police officer's polite request to take his hands out of his pockets |
| 18-863 | Tralvis Edmond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence | Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch… |
| 18-7214 | Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic… |
| 18-7179 | Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2018-12-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony | Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that pe… |
| 18-7151 | Curtis John Mulhern v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-enterprise due-process entrapment law-enforcement outrageous-conduct outrageous-government-conduct probable-cause reverse-sting | Did law enforcement conduct become constitutionally unacceptable where government-agents-and-confidential-informant-engineered-criminal-enterprise |
| 18-7156 | Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether pedestrian Terry stops based on probable cause do or do not equate to arrest |
| 18-7095 | Miguel Robinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant | Did the Court of Appeals violate the principle that rigid legal rules are ill-suited to an analysis of probable cause by relying on a rule to find a m… |
| 18-7043 | Coleman Tuton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine commercial-passenger-bus drug-detection-canine fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine luggage probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Does the general alert of a drug-detection canine to the luggage compartment of a commercial passenger bus—but not to any particular piece of luggage … |
| 18-764 | Oscar Henry Steinmetz v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent consent-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | Does the law regarding searches, seizures, and consent need clarification for proper guidance and application? |
| 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… |
| 18-6951 | Jamal Cooper v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2518 4th-amendment congressional-intent consent-requirements criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware necessity-requirement omnibus-crime-control-act probable-cause separate-application statutory-interpretation wiretap-application wiretap-necessity wiretap-statute | Is 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (1) (ce) a statutory provision that reflects Congress' core concerns and does § 2518 (1)(c) require that each request for a wireta… |
| 18-6959 | Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure | Whether arbitrary government intrusion violates the Fourth Amendment by means of unlawful search and seizure without probable cause |
| 18-720 | Ronald Duhe, et al. v. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-vagueness detention-policy disorderly-conduct due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-precedent overbreadth probable-cause vagueness | Whether precedent by this Court together with the Eighth Circuit, other circuits and state courts of last resort had clearly established the vagueness… |
| 18-6908 | Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | IFP | 42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop |
| 18-6918 | Samantha Christine Velazquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone-privacy cell-phone-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless, post-arrest cell-phone-search is permissible under the Fourth-Amendment at the United-States-border |
| 18-6861 | John Wilborn v. Kelly Ryan, Warden | First Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence actual-innocence-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding probable-cause probable-cause-transcript prosecutorial-misconduct | Where John Wilborn made an actual innocence claim, did the Commonwealth violate John Wilborn's rights by withholding the probable cause transcript fro… |
| 18-6864 | Thomas Whitlow v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-complaint criminal-complaint-validity false-statements fraud-on-court indictment perjury probable-cause reckless-disregard subject-matter-jurisdiction sworn-affidavit void-judgment | Is the criminal complaint void when it was based on statements from Special Agent Terrance Taylor that were knowingly false and exhibited reckless dis… |
| 18-6866 | Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-11-28 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Does the act of accessing any information from a cellular phone without a warrant contravene the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California and U… |
| 18-667 | Lonnie Charles Williams, III v. Texas | Texas | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | driving-while-intoxicated drug-detection fourth-amendment intoxication-signs law-enforcement odor-of-alcohol probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment can exist in a driving while intoxicated context when officers do not detect the odor of alcoh… |
| 18-6724 | Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment | Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Mr. Ozier's conviction for armed robbery and bank robbery? |
| 18-623 | Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit | May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha… |
| 18-6664 | Daniel David Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower courts erred in denying Mr. Garza's Motion to Suppress based on the erroneous finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to i… |
| 18-6702 | Brandon Gale Combs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate at … |
| 18-591 | Gary Dressler v. Bradford Rice, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights conspiracy fourth-amendment open-carry probable-cause qualified-immunity second-amendment | Is an individual's Second Amendment right to bear arms violated? |
| 18-6587 | David James Matthew v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anticipatory-warrant conditional-warrant florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment knock-and-announce probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-grubbs warrantless-entry | Whether agent Waldo's initial warrantless entry into the enclosed 'screened front patio' of Matthew's residence violated the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-576 | Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing | Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet the proper civil remedy for an 'overcharge' prosecution? |
| 18-6540 | Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation | Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional |
| 18-6512 | Jabril Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search | Whether petitioners were arrested without probable cause |
| 18-6520 | Jesus L. Arnett v. Patrick Covello, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-conviction forged-bills ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sentencing speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights structural-error | Should Petitioner be granted a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-6431 | Justin Jenkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search | Whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress evidence from illegal searches |
| 18-531 | Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa | Iowa | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | cady-v-dombrowski cady-v-drombrowski community-caretaking constitutional-law exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment immediate-need objective-facts police-assistance probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-seizure | Whether the Court's holding in Cady v. Dombrowski permits a warrantless seizure under the Fourth Amendment without objective facts establishing an imm… |
| 18-6399 | Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy | Whether the officer conducted a valid inventory search of a closed container without a written policy governing such searches |
| 18-6412 | Jaiyanah Bey v. Elmwood Place Police Department, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure administrative-search civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop | Can a police randomly stop and force you off the road to randomly inspect your private property without probable cause to impose a program on people t… |
| 18-511 | Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokhar, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | arrest-standard civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause qualified-immunity standing state-law supreme-court | Whether a court, in determining whether arguable probable cause exists to arrest for a state-law crime, must consider any narrowing decisions by the s… | |
| 18-491 | Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-10-17 | Denied | appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure | Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu… | |
| 18-474 | LeFloris Lyon v. Canadian National Railway Company, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens bivens-action civil-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-prosecution seventh-circuit-conflict | Whether retaliatory prosecution in violation of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment is actionable under Bivens when the arrest warrants and prose… |
| 18-478 | Brian Edward Malnes v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-vagueness fourth-amendment harassment harassment-statute law-enforcement overbreadth probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search-and-seizure vagueness | Whether law enforcement officials had probable cause to arrest the Petitioner for the crime of harassment under Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-2921(A)(1) based… |
| 18-6297 | Jorge Robles-Avalos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-the-circumstances vehicle-stop | Must a court consider a Border Patrol agent's admission to routinely stopping vehicles without reasonable suspicion as part of the totality of the cir… |
| 18-6268 | Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure | Whether the Georgia Supreme Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's application for certificate of probable cause because the Petitioner did not fi… |
| 18-6243 | Christopher Jackson v. Florida | Florida | 2018-10-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-evidence indirect-evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure standing wong-sun | Whether secondary evidence discovered as a result of an illegal search and seizure can constitute proof against the victim of search, and does exclusi… |
| 18-437 | Dmitri I. Medvedev v. Henrico County | Virginia | 2018-10-05 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights driver's-license due-process dui fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | When the officer took and retained Petitioner's license, did it constitute a seizure for Fourth Amendment purposes where reasonable suspicion did not … | |
| 18-440 | Edward Michael Nero, et al. v. Marilyn J. Mosby | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-immunity advocacy-function civil-procedure civil-rights due-process investigation investigatory-materials law-enforcement legal-advice probable-cause prosecutor prosecutor-investigation prosecutorial-immunity standing | Whether a prosecutor is acting as an 'advocate' and is entitled to absolute immunity when the prosecutor performs an investigation and provides those … |
| 18-6050 | Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest | Whether the states have reached incongruent results when interpreting this Court's decision due to a radical defect that occurred after the petitioner… |
| 18-6057 | Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 18-368 | Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the denial of probable cause and qualified immunity for Detective Thomas |
| 18-6039 | Darryl Taylor v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Whether the search warrant was valid and lawful |
| 18-339 | June Harper v. Arthur Leahy, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-procedure payton-standard payton-v-new-york probable-cause reasonable-suspicion | Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to have probable cause to believe that a suspect is present in a home before forcing entry into that… |
| 18-5987 | Ajohntae Hammond v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search | Whether a police officer's fear for safety justified a warrantless search |
| 18-325 | Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver | Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted… |
| 18-5973 | Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the … |
| 18-5936 | Terrance D. Johnson v. Randall Williams, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | IFP | evidence-preservation exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from conducting a warrantless search and seizure of a vehicle based solely on probable… |
| 18-5927 | J. A. v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attenuation coolidge-v-new-hampshire fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-entry lustig-v-united-states probable-cause reasonable-foreseeability search-and-seizure state-action | Did a search involve state action under the Fourth Amendment where police officers entered a home illegally, an officer there told an inquiring civili… |
| 18-285 | Missouri v. Phillip Douglass, et al. | Missouri | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment particularity particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing warrant warrant-severability | Is severance the default remedy when part of a warrant is valid, or does the Fourth Amendment also require that the valid sections make up 'the greate… |
| 18-5901 | Willis Maxi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment illegal-search knock-and-talk law-enforcement-entry motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence and statement? |
| 18-5856 | David Gerard Jeep v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process eighth-circuit judicial-act judicial-immunity probable-cause qualified-immunity rico-act standing xiv-amendment | Is the issuance, and support on appeal, of a court order without a 'reasonable probable cause' a judicial act? |
| 18-5874 | Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | Did the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit error in finding probable cause to justify a vehicle stop and the arrest of petitioner? |
| 18-5759 | Daniela Castellanos v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2518 electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates investigative-procedures officer-conclusions-opinions privacy privacy-invasion probable-cause wiretap-warrant wiretapping wiretapping-procedures-18-usc-2518 | Whether the facts required to establish probable cause include conclusions and opinions of the officer applying for the wiretap warrant |
| 18-5705 | George Easterly v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea | Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent |
| 18-5718 | James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review | Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court? |
| 18-218 | Trey Beam v. Robert F. Abercrombie, Jr. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | 11th-circuit civil-rights due-process investigation misdemeanor probable-cause qualified-immunity willful-failure | Whether an officer may lose qualified immunity based upon the allegation of willful' failure to investigate even when the officer has established at l… | |
| 18-5667 | Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure | Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'… |
| 18-5614 | Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation | Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r… |
| 18-5587 | Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable… |
| 18-5588 | Juan Manuel Sanchez-Jara v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-site-simulator fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search privacy probable-cause residence surveillance warrant | Whether location of a cell phone user in his residence through use of a cell site simulator, without a probable cause warrant, but with a 'warrant and… |
| 18-5526 | Michael P. Lough v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5471 | Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness | Does the Appellate Court need to follow rules? Or are they allowed to circumvent established procedure? |
| 18-5406 | Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure | Whether the police exceeded the scope of the search warrant and seized additional items in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-145 | Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… |
| 18-5389 | Torrick Johntrelle Rodgers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fruits-of-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing warrant | Whether the district court should have suppressed all of the fruits of the poisonous tree based upon the found to be corrupted officials and the illeg… |
| 18-117 | Brian Grimm v. Maryland | Maryland | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review constitutional-law dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reliability search-and-seizure standard-of-review | When a defendant challenges the reliability of a dog's reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in a vehicle, what standard of appellate revie… |
| 18-5371 | Michael Ellis v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-07-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute | Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (7th Cir.) of an unconstitu… |
| 18-5332 | Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search | Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is… |
| 18-5296 | Todd Rasberry v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | consent fourth-amendment home-privacy home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the government can circumvent a home occupant's consent by invoking Terry v. Ohio to search the home and person without a warrant |
| 18-5306 | Ramiah Jefferson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | cell-phone cell-phone-search fourth-amendment gang-activity probable-cause riley-v-california search-warrant zurcher-v-stanford-daily | Whether an application for a search warrant to examine the contents of a cell phone seized incident to an arrest must show more to establish probable … |
| 18-5249 | Kristian Thomas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | active-warrant arrest-procedure due-process failure-to-appear fourth-amendment law-enforcement misdemeanor-arrest misdemeanor-arrest-warrant misdemeanor-warrant probable-cause reasonable-caution warrant-confirmation | Does the Fourth Amendment require prudence or reasonable caution so that before exercising a misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to appear, a week-… |
| 18-58 | Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review | Whether the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure should be suppressed |
| 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 … |
| 18-5151 | James G. Yahnke v. North Dakota | North Dakota | 2018-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent constitutional-rights drunk-driving due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless blood tests for drunk driving, where a motorist has not consented to the blood test |
| 18-5142 | Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-07-05 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the evidence acquired during Mr. Heximer's illegal detention is inadmissible under clearly-established law |
| 18-5004 | Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe |
| 18-5023 | Glenn Edwards v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause search-warrant staleness standing takings | Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence used to obtain a search warrant, violating the pe… |