protective-sweep
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6593 | Juan Guerrero v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review fourth-amendment officer-safety protective-sweep suppression-ruling vehicle-search | Whether the First Circuit erred in reversing the District Court's suppression ruling by holding that an officer's actual fear for their safety is not … |
| 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 … |
| 23-7751 | Montel Westley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit civil-procedure-4th-amendment-search-warrant-affid due-process perjury protective-sweep search-warrant warrant-execution | Question not identified |
| 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 |
| 23-5428 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-6378 | 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… |
| 21-7324 | Caleb Guerrier v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-arrest law-enforcement-procedure protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement | Whether the search of the second floor of the petitioner's home was within the 'protective sweep' exception to the warrant requirement when the police… |
| 21-1190 | Ramon Rios, III v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home under surveillance? |
| 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 |
| 21-5230 | Maurice Stewart v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error-review protective-sweep rehaif-v-united-states | Whether a circuit court of appeals errs in relying on a petitioner's stipulation of prior felony conviction to infer the petitioner had knowledge of h… |
| 20-7290 | Michael Scott Hanuman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure emergency-aid emergency-aid-doctrine fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Does the Fourth Amendment permit law enforcement officers to conduct a protective sweep search of a private home under the Buie 'reasonable suspicion'… |
| 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… |
| 19-7432 | Edwin David Calligan v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment michigan-v-long officer-safety protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether officers can reasonably fear a suspect will retrieve a weapon after being told he is free to go |
| 18-8943 | David Raphael Concepcion v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure | Whether the holding of Maryland v. Buie applies to protective sweeps incident to arrests made just outside a home |
| 18-7309 | Kevin Balfour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective-sweep exception to the Fourth-Amendment right … |
| 18-5267 | Arthur Waters v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment categorical-exception drug-distribution exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment in-home-arrest precedent protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Should Buie be expanded to permit protective sweeps in all cases involving in-home arrests of suspected drug distributors? |