probation-officer
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-800 | Matthew Scott Rocco v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | bailey-precedent fourth-amendment geographical-restriction law-enforcement probation-officer search-warrant | Does it violate the Fourth Amendment when, during the execution of a residential search warrant, law enforcement subverts the geographical restriction… |
| 25-5811 | Ricky Joe Bland v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sentencing drug-testing federal-circuit-split probation-officer sentencing-procedure supervised-release | Did the district court below err in imposing as a special condition of supervised release a requirement that "[t]he defendant… participate in a progra… |
| 25-5348 | Hector Cristobal Mejia-Estrada v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission standard-conditions supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 24-6761 | Eric Vaughn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-testing probation-officer special-conditions supervised-release | Whether a district court can delegate to a probation officer the determination of drug testing frequency during supervised release |
| 23-7817 | Fernando Angel Puga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines standard-conditions supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5940 | John Paul Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5773 | Adrian De La Torre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 23-5503 | Roman Alvarado, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 22-7526 | Charles Edward Krupalla v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority delegation-of-authority due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 22-6626 | Jonathan Jefferson Ferris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 22-6510 | Daniel Marmolejo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 22-6246 | Antonio Osorio-Mendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-authority due-process federal-sentencing judicial-authority judicial-delegation probation-officer sentencing-commission separation-of-powers supervised-release | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate judicial authority to the probation officer? |
| 22-141 | Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 | Whether a probation officer's actions violate the disabled person's rights under the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, giving rise to a c… |
| 22-5298 | Seth Anthony Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment homeland-security homeland-security-search privacy-interest probation-condition probation-officer search-condition supervised-release warrantless-search | Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly ruled that Mr. Johnson's supervised release search condition substantially diminished his weighty privacy interes… |
| 22-91 | Stephanie Logsdon Smith, et al. v. Kentucky | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation involuntary-servitude private-right-of-action probation-officer sexual-slavery slavery sovereign-immunity state-action thirteenth-amendment | Whether the Constitution confers a private right of action against an individual State when that State violates the explicit prohibitions against slav… |
| 21-8181 | Joshua Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-delegation probation-conditions probation-officer sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness | Whether the imposition of Standard Condition (12), U.S.S.G. § 5D1.3(c)(12), violates a defendant's right to Due Process because the condition unconsti… |
| 21-7382 | Adolfo Huerta v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-ii constitutional-law due-process inpatient-treatment judicial-authority non-delegation probation-officer supervised-release treatment-program | Does a supervised release condition imposing 'inpatient or outpatient' participation in a treatment program constitute an impermissible delegation of … |
| 21-7327 | Tina Carol Ortega v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers | Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment program… |
| 21-5715 | Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing | Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off… |
| 21-68 | Brendon Janis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-19 | Denied | constitutional-delegation delegation-of-authority due-process probation-officer risk-notification sentencing-guidelines supervised-release vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Does Standard Condition 12 unconstitutionally delegate authority to the probation officer? | |
| 20-7483 | Luis Andres Medel-Guadalupe v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii delegation-of-authority inpatient-treatment outpatient-treatment probation-officer supervised-release | Does a district court's delegation of authority to a probation officer to determine whether a person on supervised release undergoes inpatient treatme… |
| 20-6655 | Alonso Sanchez Ochoa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing defense-counsel district-court pre-sentence-report probation-officer relevant-conduct sentencing | Is it reasonable for a District Court to order a consecutive sentence despite an agreement among Probation Officer, Pre-Sentence Report Addendum, and … |
| 20-5490 | William James Payton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3583(d)(2) criminal-procedure home-visit home-visits liberty-deprivation probation-officer statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release | Is a standard condition of supervised release too broad to comply with the directive under § 3583(d)(2) that a condition involve no greater deprivatio… |
| 19-7679 | Jonathan Brownlee v. Keith Hearns, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probation-officer restitution sentencing supervised-release | Should the United States Probationary Officer Robert Cowan be held criminally liable for his actions which caused the Petitioner to take supervised re… |
| 18-8627 | Frank Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing | Whether the sentencing court's failure to disclose the 'Confidential Recommendation' of the Probation Officer regarding the Petitioner's sentence viol… |
| 18-8185 | Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness | Whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervised release that a defendant permit a probation officer to visit the probation officer a… |
| 18-6642 | Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona | Arizona | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees judicial-review probation probation-conditions probation-officer revocation right-to-counsel | Did the court violate Mr. Ibeabuchi's right to counsel by revoking his probation for exercising his constitutional rights? |