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25-6741 Kimberly Cannon v. Florida Florida 2026-02-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility probation-violation search-and-seizure warrantless-search I. DOES EVIDENCE OBTAINED DURING A WARRANTLESS SEARCH USED IN A PROBATION VIOLATION REVOCATION PROCEEDING AND ALSO AS A BASIS FOR NEW LAW VIOLATION…
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 I. Fourth Amendment: Warrant and Entry Defects 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues…
25-6640 Juan Carlos Bejar-Guizar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending Response WaivedIFP border-patrol fourth-amendment illegal-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude facts that show a likelihood of innocent behavi…
25-6562 Dustin Shane Sandiford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement and the Fifth Amendment due process mandate, when …
25-6455 Mark Bolling v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment impeachable-fact inevitable-discovery nix-standard search-and-seizure Whether the presence of impeachable fact is required under Nix before an inevitable discovery analysis can be allowed in the context of a Fourth Amend…
25A747 Justin Page v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-12-23 Application caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking emergency-aid fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Is there a so-called "community caretaking" exception to the warrant requirement that operates distinctly from the emergency aid exception?
25-6373 Latonia Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment riley-precedent search-and-seizure warrant-particularity In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court established that cell phones require enhanced Fourth Amendment privacy protections. The questi…
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 4L. G&vermen4 <^o iw+o mu ZCclo^J Accent om4 m j consent -4han ase -iKd' cxaatnst m v^^rr^n
25A686 Demetrius Green v. United States District of Columbia 2025-12-11 Application fourth-amendment law-enforcement pole-camera privacy search-and-seizure surveillance Question not identified.
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 By April of 2019 both the state of Tennessee and the federal government excluded low-THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) marijuana from the definition …
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 I. Whether the Fourt h Amendment is violated and requires suppression of evidence, when the police conduct a warrantless search of the arrestee's ba…
25-6234 Edwin Riascos Romero v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's sufficiency of the evidence challenge was proper? and 2. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's i…
25-6207 Mark Eugene Benton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment vehicle-search 1) Was the search of the petitioners vehicle, on 12-31-2020, lawful under the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as Montana Cnst…
25-6204 Brian N. Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-11-24 Denied IFP appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure This case involves a serious of important question about fair warning to United States citizens of a collateral and direct Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and F…
25-6049 Richard Vandale Clowney v. Greenville County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement neutral-detached-magistrate search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a Magistrate who holds office at the law enforcement center investigating crimes is subject to and why law enforcement on easily passes, i.e. …
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 Issuing Search Warrants And Arrest Warrants At A Law Enforcement Center In Violation Of The Fourth Amendment Neutral And Detached…
25-484 Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas Texas 2025-10-20 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-technology location-tracking search-and-seizure Fourth Amendment rights vary among circuits and state high courts, as well as intrajurisdictionally between Texas federal and Texas state courts, rega…
25-5814 Jaylyn Devell McGhee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry implied-license law-enforcement search-and-seizure Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, law enforcement may exceed the implied license to approach the front door of a…
25-412 Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance 1. Whether a "search" occurs when the government takes a purposeful, investigative act directed toward an individual's home and curtilage, regardless …
25-399 Ronell Moses, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Amici (1) criminal-procedure curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure 1. Whether a defendant's actual use of an area adjacent to his home is relevant to whether that area is curtilage under the Fourth Amendment, as four …
25-5795 Jordan Jysae Pulido v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search electronic-device fourth-amendment privacy-rights reasonableness search-and-seizure What limits does the Fourth Amendment's reasonableness requirement impose on searches of electronic devices performed at the border.
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 when applied to cannabis today, because the odor of cannabis no longer plainly identifies an illegal …
25-5764 James Edward King v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing third-circuit ups-package WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT KING LACKED A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY IN THE PACKAGE ADDRESSED TO "ALEXANDIRA SALCEDO" AT…
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 The first Question Presented is whether the Fourth Amendment protects a citizen from a search of the curtilage surrounding his home, when that search …
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 Question not identified.
25A260 Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana Montana 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete consent fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
25-212 Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response Waived ada-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-immunity fourth-amendment search-and-seizure This Court has long recognized that "to facilitate the orderly and sympathetic administration of the disability program[s] * * *, the Secretary and …
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 1. Whether or not forcible and unauthorized entry pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17980.7, and obtaining evidence to use is in pseudocriminal …
25-5329 Duane Gary Underwood, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress other-acts-evidence reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure voir-dire I. Mr. Underwood challenged his seizure and search because there was no reasonable suspicion to justify the detention and search. Did the court err in…
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…
25-10 Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals this Court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, even criminal context.
25-5002 Juan Carlos Garridoaguilar v. California California 2025-07-01 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search A police officer recovered a firearm when he conducted a warrantless search of the passengers of a car stopped for a registration violation. Was it er…
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 When determining whether law enforcement's stop of a suspect was lawful under the Fourth Amendment, may federal courts use state law – in this case, C…
24-7374 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2025-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment particularity-clause search-and-seizure stare-decisis warrantless-search What weight is due to considerations of stare decisis in evaluating the constitutional rights or protections against warrantless or unconstitutional s…
24-7288 Quaid Akeem Cornell v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied IFP fourth-amendment group-detention ineffective-assistance investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure 1. May police officers detain and search all members of group on grounds that the behavior of one person was suspicious? 2. Is trial counsel constitu…
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 Question not identified.
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 1.Does a law enforcement officer violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution when he has every thing he needs to complete a traffic stop and fini…
24A1073 Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-06 Presumed Complete disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security Question not identified.
24-7135 Mario Keeream Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-data criminal-procedure evidence-law fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure I. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DENYING MR. JACKSON'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE UNLAWFUL SEARCH OF CELLULAR PHONE DATA AND RECORDS
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…
24-7027 Charles House v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure surveillance WHETHER THE INSTALLATION OF A POLE CAMERA, WITH A ZOOM LENS, WHOSE PURPOSE WAS TO MONITOR PETITIONER'S MOVEMENTS FROM AND TO HIS RESIDENCE, TWENTY-F…
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 1. Does a warrantless search and seizure of a closed container belonging to Petitioner violate the Fourth Amendment where there is not clear and unequ…
24-6983 Markanthony Deleon Sapalasan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied IFP detention fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement property-retention search-and-seizure "At the stationhouse, it is entirely proper for police to remove and list or inventory property found on the person or in the possession of an arreste…
24-6973 James Arthur Meeks, III v. Alvin DeBouse, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied IFP constitutional-search due-process federal-rules judicial-review procedural-error search-and-seizure Question not identified.
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 1. Whether it was error for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold the district court's order denying Petitioner's Motion to Suppress items obtained through a…
24-6511 Ian Mitcham v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure dna-profile fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure For nearly four decades, courts have grappled with interpreting the inevitable discovery doctrine. Some courts, including the Second, Fifth, Eighth, a…
24-847 Ladonies P. Strong v. United States Armed Forces 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived data-seizure dominion-and-control fourth-amendment military-justice property-interference search-and-seizure In United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109, 113 (1984), this Court held that "[a] 'seizure' of property occurs when there is some meaningful interfere…
24-6443 Davion Brown v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment franks-hearing government-misconduct judicial-review search-and-seizure warrant-falsity Whether the Second Circuit erred in denying Petitioner a Franks hearing when confronted with evidence of government representatives lying to four succ…
24-6444 Samuel T. Whatley, II, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure 1. Are intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and or individual governmental employees immune to federal law prosecutions, lawsuits, and sanction…
24-6400 Tac Tran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment guest-rights home-entry search-and-seizure standing Whether a guest who has substantial connections to a home and its residents has Fourth Amendment standing to challenge a search of the home that occur…
24-6357 Montrese Antoine Snuggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probation-condition search-and-seizure suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment authorizes warrantless, suspicionless searches of probationers as part of a condition of probation.
24-6257 Willie Cory Godbolt v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-01-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure 1). a fleujS RrsV AM^Neine/lV pnvileg "Vo sVueldt Vver ^acirce^ -Vru.wjp?. CrirairvaX c^e^w^fyl's v)t<^W Ar/be>,vA<vien-V r'l^j/feV- 4© CjQj^rorvVouV^…
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 Question not identified.
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 Does the 4 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibit the use of a cellphone to track a representative of the House without a warrant? Does the 1 an…
24A585 Trinidad Alvarado v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment methamphetamine-possession search-and-seizure Question not identified.
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 Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 218 (1983) established the "totality of the circumstances analysis" for determining if an informant's tip provided suffici…
24-6027 In Re Pierre Haobsh 2024-11-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Question not identified.
24-6023 Leonardo Terrazas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the inevitable discovery doctrine—based on its assumption that officers would have discovered the same evid…
24A483 Samuel Boima v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment guilty-plea search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Question not identified.
24-535 Gregory Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search 1. Whether an individual sitting in the passenger seat of a borrowed and lawfully parked vehicle, which is being used with the standing permission of …
24-5890 Ushery Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the search of a person's residence based solely on that person's status as a known drug dealer. 2. Whether Le…
24-5888 Terrion Deondre Herman v. R. Brown Fourth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment government-surveillance privacy-rights reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Dean oP a Dpprtmett buiiding-Ghovld We Wou) Raa Jrstice' that a tego FonlDeo 2 Door Mart Pret be Added 40 the Commou "ang OT" Areas oP pretmesT buildi…
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 More than 3.5 million people in the United States are subject to warrantless, suspicionless searches of their residences as a result of their probatio…
24-5687 Solomon Odubajo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure source-state terry-stop warrantless-search 1. Given Deputy Twombly's admission on the record (PagelD //500, 9-14) that the only factor establishing reasonable suspicion to seize the Parcel was…
24-5620 Salvador Salas, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states container-search digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-v-california search-and-seizure In light of this Court's recent ly-discuss ed privacy concerns articulated in Riley v. California and Carpenter v. United States , whether the Fourth …
24A276 Manuel Enrique Yates v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-18 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause fourth-amendment pro-se search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue (1) The confrontation clause under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution; (2) Venue also listed under the Sixth Amendment of the Unit…
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 (1) Did the previous alleged criminal Joe at the Counts Aiden & oo rts LOVNDIOAT OCIA \ ancl when Shere were ext Ce. ae 4 J ine USe ok on Qirearm An R…
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 On a traffic-stop after the Officer, gave the citation to Petitioner, and Petitioner, did not give him consent to search his vehicle. 1.Why does the P…
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 wl A Search hJavsast'l b/ n1/0 ^ri^ovc^uv\<M cppk 7^c Ck// beiuh*'*^ -M< offu^r G*d ~bh< ^ud<yc u/kv iSSUf ^ 4-k-e wi uv/ b-t Vtcovdid- LUiy.Skrt. f 9…
24A157 United States v. Landon R. Mayo District of Columbia 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop Question not identified.
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 "The government bears the burden of proof in justifying a warrantless search or seizure." United States v. McGee, 736 F.3d 263, 269 (4th Cir. 2013), c…
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 Following Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), may law enforcement seize a person's mobile telephone—without probable cause and without a warrant…
24-75 Nicholas Yarofalchuw v. John Cabrera, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment curtilage curtilage-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment misdemeanor misdemeanor-seizure reasonable-officer-standard santana-precedent search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest Is it clearly established that a warrantless arrest, in the absence of exigent circumstances, by physical force, for a misdemeanor, in the entrance to…
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, under the plain-touch doctrine established by Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 375, 113 S. Ct. 2130, 124 L. Ed. 2d 334 (1993), deputies …
24-5147 Lamon D. Boyd v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-25 Denied IFP due-process exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment issue being raised search-and-seizure term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 warrantless-search The First Constitutional question presented, stands upon the Federal 4th Amendment, and 14th Amendment Due Process Clause applicable to the State that…
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 WJ FourFi/\ AyvAead iM.e/rF permd-S Afi' v^l S>FxVeS rVvuFe a warrarv+less CocFs OocUbaSe "5Wrck ^ ^ro/vA a |jFre£] person wko AaS Ac4 bee a. £oc t c\…
24-5107 Myron Motley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-split law-enforcement medical-records prescription-data prescription-drugs privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure Whether patients hold a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in prescription medication records, which can reveal a wealth of …
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 1. Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent "all-data" warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation whatsoever, w…
24A34 David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment investigatory-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop Question not identified.
24-5015 Eduardo Alvarez, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant attenuation-doctrine criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-stop search-and-seizure standing utah-v-strieff In Utah v. Strieff, 579 U.S. 232 (2016), this Court held that an officer's discovery of a valid, pre-existing arrest warrant for the defendant himself…
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.
23-7831 In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello 2024-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether a search warrant and seizure violate the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment and due process rights.
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 it reasonable for an officer to conduct an investigative detention where there are insufficient facts in the record to conclude that an individual …
23-7805 In Re Enrique Medina 2024-06-28 Denied IFP access-to-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search 1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER IS PARTY TO SEEK TRIAL WHEN PETITIONER'S RIGHTS VIOLATED 2. WHETHER RESPONDENT'S SUIT VIOLATED PETITIONER'S PROCEDURAL DUE …
23-1355 Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-06-28 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified "evidence" of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen…
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 sVsAtrVe^S Cor^Vrfefes er er-rontcus U3e cA Sl\ J\ko\\er- -_Aor\ L^orxAS^^ cjT- Cor>s'VrWi\i o^C)\ Errors ga.~a Connc~V\r>ej— error cn Aer~lV\<e ^T^k…
23-7773 Christopher Marcel Esqueda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent Florida-v-Jardines fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search implied-consent implied-license jardines-precedent law-enforcement property-based-test property-rights search search-and-seizure secret-recording undercover-agent When an individual invites an undercover agent into their residence, can the agent secretly record without a warrant, or does such conduct exceed the …
23-7714 Derek Gerrish v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure Does a bail condition that allows searches by law enforcement officers without probable cause or reasonable suspicion qualify as punishment for purpos…
23A1100 Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-10 Presumed Complete digital-warrant exclusionary-rule facebook-data fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure Question not identified.
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 1. Does the Leon good-faith exception apply to salvage a barebones affidavit where at an evidentiary hearing conducted to establish a record of sworn …
23-7562 Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1. Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth A…
23-7572 Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau Seventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
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 I-l pcul-exi 4^ Coryipl^ 4~kp p ^ oF CourT" +■© Prelude ■++« Sn'gm onol StoJ °.F pfbhahk CGW2e ^^)+hlh T|W| r ^Lf'Sd'CW +* loo lei Csu7T-T><jipmc<SS>…
23-7475 Steve Podkulski v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition privacy search-and-seizure supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Kbr 5?^ To ?ouc£ t (\^bOP C\G\VT Tb5^ ^>T\\ Tb ^CO^CT Cb'o COuN>5£T_ \ws£ \ "2 '1£/^3W0O\X> C??VA t>0£ To fMC^:5T ' £s^9C'hL.oAVC 6>tCEA 1/ 0/
23-7413 Adonis Marquis Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement privacy search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrantless-search 1. Whether a third party's personal use and physical possession of Petitioner's cell phone transfer authority to the third party to consent to law enf…
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 1) 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), w…
23-7385 Jacob Paul Bermel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent electronic-device failure-to-object fourth-amendment implied-consent minor-consent search search-and-seizure warrantless-search L. Whether the failure to object to law enforcement search establishes implied consent to search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment? II. Whether a …
23A975 Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
23-7350 Raul Zamora-Quinonos v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion consent-search exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment involuntary-consent law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search WHETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT VIOLATED THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATE…
23-7311 Holly Harvey v. Allen Dillis, Warden Georgia 2024-04-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-filing criminal-procedure due-process employment-history financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-sources poverty-affidavit search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
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 Before government agents can search a private home, the Fourth Amendment generally requires them to obtain a warrant supported by probable cause. Here…
23-1158 Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights fourth-amendment home-privacy privacy-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search Whether a federal court deciding a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of rights can find that the Officers were entitled to qua…
23-7289 Robert A. Horse v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party third-party-doctrine warrantless-search Whether the State Supreme Court opinion violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by allowing law enforcement to obtain access to a third party (G…
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 Question not identified.
23-7275 Charles Gary Singletary, III v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-provisions due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing supreme-court writ Question not identified.
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…
23-7215 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 In determining whether a Franks violation occurred, whether a reviewing court may place substantial evidentiary weight on an officer-affiant's consult…
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 I. Whether the federal court denied effect to the immunity provision of the state statute when it concluded that the arrest of Mr. Davis was objective…
23-7168 Robert J. Plato, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment airport-screening civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing tsa-procedures unreasonable-search Question not identified.
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 1. Whether the admission in evidence of 161 eBay & PayPal accounts seized and modified by them with information obtained from Postal Inspectors to fab…
23-7134 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Can reviewing judge rely on information not provided to the issuing judge for determining whether substantial basis exists showing do the McCleskey su…
23-7117 Robert Swint v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
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? Should the docket sheet reflect all pleadings filed in a…
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 1) When law enforcement applied for the search warrant to search petitioner's vehicle and residence, does the Warrant Clause of the Fourth Amendment r…
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 When a warrantless search of a vehicle is initiated, due to the odor of "burnt cannabis," Does dismantling the interior exceed the scope of the search…
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 How is the Eleveoth recut Appeal Cough able Zo Clam igsuz3 Raiseol by Pelrhoner l8S wol ConSiitulional y'bhshad! piped HE Lond eutel fhe thunted EAE C…
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 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to the act of searching or the initial decision to search, based on an objective standard considering the tota…
23-6866 Cesar Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the …
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, articulated in Brown v. Texas, 44…
23-905 John William Hanson, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response Waived arrest-time civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force false-testimony jury-instructions search-and-seizure sentencing 1. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has already established that the Petitioner did not Resist Arrest on February 3, 2018. "Hanson did not threaten …
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 police to get a warrant before they open a digital file that was flagged by a private technology company's computer …
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 v…
23-885 Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-16 Denied anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop In Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1973), this Court recognized the "community caretaking" function of police. In Florida v. J.L., 529 U.S. 266 (200…
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 an probable cause affidavit contains only evidence that a person was in a car with and drove an alleged drug dealer to and from a drug transactio…
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 The police violated the Fourth Amendment when they searched Wilborne's backpack and recovered a firearm that formed the basis of the indictment filed …
23-6705 Lamar Lovett v. Texas Texas 2024-02-08 Denied IFP cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
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 A police officer may seize and search a person on parole without suspicion. See Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843, 857 (2006). But the officer must f…
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 Question not identified.
23-826 Antony Junior Harris, aka Anthony Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response Waived alias-name alias-shipping contraband-detection fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure private-shipping-facility reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing I. Does an individual possess a reasonable expectation of privacy in a package shipped under an alias name, such that the individual has standing to a…
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…
23-6580 Charles Ramon, III, aka Charles Roger Ramon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidence fourth-amendment privacy-expectation probation probation-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search This Court's prior precedent in Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 U.S. 868 (1987) and its progeny hold that a person's status as a supervised releasee, such a…
23-6530 Joseph Brodie v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment-rights medical-records-alteration obstruction-of-justice rules-of-professional-conduct search-and-seizure witness-testimony 1. DOES THE DISCLOSURE OF ALTERED, MODIFIED, AND DELETED FEDERAL VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL RECORDS -IN VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. 641 & 2071(b)- IN RECIPRO…
23A676 Kevin McCall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
23-6516 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. City of North Charleston, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-interference federal-jurisdiction freedom-of-information governmental-immunity search-and-seizure transparency treason 1. Are intergovernmental agencies, organizations, and or individual governmental employees immune to federal law prosecutions, lawsuits, and sanction …
23-6518 Anthony Bailey v. Nevada Parole Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
23-6468 Omar A. Rahman v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence pennsylvania-superior-court right-to-counsel right-to-defense search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unlawful-arrest witness-testimony Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision, affirming the denial of Petitioner's suppression of physical evidence claim, conflicts with the de…
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 Texas DPS Troopers stopped Stephen Brunson because his license plate was expired. They had planned, due to a tip they received, to ask for consent to …
23-6404 Jamar Hunter v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence 1. Was the Third Circuit's reversal of Petitioner's suppression of evidence in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
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, not only reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop of a motorist if the police have reason …
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…
23-6270 Tony French v. Washington Washington 2023-12-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence police-misconduct property-rights search-and-seizure self-defense state-action vehicle-destruction vehicle-seizure Question not identified.
23-6264 Ignacio Salcido, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phones data-collection digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-6213 Robert Poliero, aka Charlie v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the District Court committed procedural error when it applied a 4-level enhancement pursuant to USSG §3B1.1, despite defendant's limited respo…
23-613 Luis Soto Soto, et al. v. Yashira Quiles Carrasquillo Puerto Rico 2023-12-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure 1. An employee of the United States Postal Service in a labor-management dispute that arose within a postal facility; under Section 8 of the United St…
23-6193 Steven Vincent Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-material criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity warrantless-search Does the determination that a warrant is void ab initio, rendering the resultant search of the Petitioner's residence warrantless (and thus unreasonab…
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 when the Police searched pursuant to …
23-6159 Eddie James King v. Doctor Aikens, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment medical-care search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
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 UuK-) u^fcLs vd ccofi' aWtfigscL_tflXtoL. sV<A&5 (f APf®S ■} ^, CyA <^kv4 rr^-1 ^e^fVT IjVW U5\V\ ^ (o^ ~ 6>-SL (Y>V 6°tv 1'8' \M>^.jioa^*c^v *> 't
23-6123 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP camera constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence law-enforcement perjury search-and-seizure suppression-hearing vehicle 0) UrevldiNO. W A tfehihc, Coma,,-, r£-/U/ 4^t/ yu°r ViokrtCM) a pthu ®(ficen pi pttj vny <U ThZ fiu-T AT JUpfiHeSJ/o* &c;e faoccs.3 0) A / Q/LE-S£A…
23-6095 Jerome McGoy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confidential-informant controlled-buy criminal-procedure drug-investigation due-process law-enforcement search-and-seizure undercover-operation Is it not true that Arkansas state was not authorized to use the Confidential Informant (CI) Robert Sullivan a.k.a. Smokey G. in an undercover operati…
23-6085 Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO? B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E…
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 Question not identified.
23-6045 Perry Wayne Suggs, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment general-warrant good-faith-exception home-search particularity-requirement search-and-seizure warrant-particularity When a warrant plainly violates the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement by authorizing an unbridled, general search of a home, does the good-…
23A446 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
23-6032 James William Thomas, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment common-law-presumption-of-ownership fourth-amendment property-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trespassory-test Whether a defendant has standing to challenge the search of property seized from his residence pursuant to a search warrant based upon both the common…
23-5985 Russell Wayne Bullock v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
23-5955 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment government-attorney government-misconduct illegal-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search (1) Can an attorney for the government go outside the jurisdictional process and ask a friend to dearch an office without a warrant and not violate th…
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 I. Mr. Williams moved to suppress the evidence related to the controlled substances because he was unlawfully detained when there was no reasonable su…
23-5921 Vahe Sarkiss v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-commerce reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release 1. Whether Petitioner Vahe Sarkiss' Fourth Amendment rights were violated because there was no reasonable suspicion of a violation of supervised relea…
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 coming from within a car stopped for a passenger's seatbelt violation, in a state where possession of one ounce o…
23-5898 Christian Hayward v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection privacy-interest property-seizure search-and-seizure standing texas-v-brown united-states-v-place 1) DID THE LOWER COURT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS AND/OR EQUAL PROTECTION BY FAILING BY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THAT HAYWARD HAD A PRIVACY POSSESSORY INTEREST I…
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 Narcotics agents were surveilling a house based on unidentified "concerned citizen" calls of a high volume of short-stay traffic. Without corroboratin…
23-5840 Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search cell-phone-search cell-phones constitutional-rights customs-and-border-protection digital-privacy fourth-amendment search-and-seizure u.s-border warrantless-search Whether, or under what circumstances, the Fourth Amendment permits customs officers to conduct a warrantless search of the digital contents of a perso…
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 Question not identified.
23-5793 Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention, as this Court held in Brendlin v. California, or…
23-5784 Aaron Lee Porter v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-doctrine clear-error de-novo-review fourth-amendment question-of-fact question-of-law search-and-seizure standard-of-review Is a finding that an object has been abandoned within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment a question of law subject to de novo review, or a purely fac…
23-5748 James M. Holman v. Ohio Adult Parole Authority Ohio 2023-10-11 Denied IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate the requested output. If you wo please provide the full text of the petition. 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence cell-phone-data digital-privacy privacy search-and-seizure 1. The Supreme Court of Ohio failed to exercise its supervisory power in protecting/defending the 14 Amendment, which is the petitioner's constitution…
23-5676 Terry Wayne King, II v. Texas Texas 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure employer-property employment fourth-amendment incarceration privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure transportation trucking-industry Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a tractor trailer truck cab that serves as his home while he is on the road working for an e…
23-324 Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks Fourth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure 1. Whether a cause of action exists under Bivens for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate than t…
23-5625 Gale L. Davis v. Chester James Walker, Jr., Father Second Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
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
23-5510 Anthony James Braxton v. Larry E. Harrah, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process property-rights search-and-seizure Do I have a fundamental right to receive notice of administrative forfeiture of seized property?
23-5477 James Thomas Butler, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search digital-evidence due-process forensic-extraction fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-privacy Does consent to 'take a look' at a smartphone extend to a full forensic extraction?
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?
23-5422 Herman Robinson v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment illegal-evidence police-procedure search-and-seizure Did the Schenectady County Police Department violate Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure?
23-5428 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
23-5399 Milton Melvin Rodgers v. California California 2023-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdictional-issue legal-writ search-and-seizure statutory-provisions Whether the trial court erred by admitting evidence taken in violation of the Fourth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Const…
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
23-5204 Larry David Davis v. Anna Catherine Cargile, Prosecutor, Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-26 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-filing criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure statutory-provisions Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
23-5206 Francisco J. Castaneda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-procedure detention-standards due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-questioning search-and-seizure Was the petitioner unlawfully detained?
23-5208 Jason Boudreau v. United States First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all violate…
23-5151 Tony A. Berger v. Wood County Sheriff's Department, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP brady-rule consent-to-search due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement-authority minor-interrogation parental-rights prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure witness-credibility Whether assistant district attorneys have authority to deny exculpatory evidence
23-5144 In Re Donald Lynn Martin 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-45 Ethan R. Shields v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-14 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion digital-forensics fourth-amendment military-justice reasonableness search-and-seizure Whether the Tenth Circuit framework for assessing the reasonableness of digital forensic searches under the Fourth Amendment is appropriate
23-5057 Nicholas Scott Werling v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Rock County Wisconsin 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights home-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for a search of a person's home when the person is not present and the search is conducted pursuant to…
23-5010 Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone and the subsequent use of the information obtained …
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…
22-1226 Idaho v. Kirby Anthony Dorff Idaho 2023-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-protection drug-detection drug-detection-dog fourth-amendment governmental-conduct law-enforcement lawfully-stopped-car physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure Does a drug-detection dog's physical intrusion on a lawfully stopped car constitute an unreasonable search?
22-7781 Donell Jamar Hines v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment curtilage fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jardines-precedent k9-sniff search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Leon good faith exception should allow admission of evidence obtained as a result of two unconstitutional searches, in violation of Jardin…
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
22-7656 In Re Brad Edmonds 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the warrantless installation and use of a GPS tracking device on a vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment
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…
22-1145 David Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-detention overdetention search-and-seizure warrant-validity Does Baker's right against overdetention require a reasonable analysis or only protect against mistaken overdetention for longer than three days?
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…
22-7597 In Re Frank Michael Monte 2023-05-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
22-7578 In Re Carlos A. Seino 2023-05-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate jurisdictional-challenge massachusetts-law procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment in the context of a warrantless s…
22-1121 Kamaladoss Selvam v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-warrant civil-procedure drug-enforcement fda-jurisdiction federal-agencies law-enforcement search-and-seizure search-warrant statutory-interpretation subpoena-power Whether the FDA has jurisdiction to enforce the Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act
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
22-7379 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…
22-978 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
22-7216 Terrell Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo…
22-7217 Antoine Bryant, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant search-and-seizure suppression warrant-requirements Whether a no-knock search warrant issued, without any evidence of an exigent circumstance, should result in the evidence being suppressed under the Fo…
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
22-7097 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
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
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
22-6949 Christopher Maurice McDowell v. Carlton W. Reeves Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-830 Corey Forest v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights drug-dog law-enforcement pretextual-stop search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop Whether a law enforcement officer acting as a private citizen has the authority to prolong a traffic stop
22-6832 James L. Mahaffey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-02-22 Denied IFP cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
22-6810 Jason Jarvis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution defendant-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-rules fourth-amendment legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure suppressed-evidence Whether suppressed evidence or evidence not belonging to the defendant can be used against the defendant to prosecute him?
22-6802 Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Should evidence obtained during an illegal police seizure be suppressed where the rights-violating officer testifies that the person in his custody co…
22-768 Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Does the Fifth Circuit's 'narrowed' test of reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment conflict with the Supreme Court's decisio…
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
22-6766 Michael A. Weis v. Illinois Illinois 2023-02-13 Denied IFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search Did the Illinois courts violate Petitioner's fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure when the police seized his cell phone f…
22-6646 Omar Shaheer Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
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…
22-6575 Paul Michael Malagerio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constructive-entry exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-invasion knock-and-announce law-enforcement santana-doctrine scott-v-harris search-and-seizure Whether multiple armed law enforcement officers surrounding a home at daybreak, repeatedly banging on the home's only door, refusing to leave, and ord…
22-6523 Alfonzo Johnlouis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment government-action government-actor mail-carrier postal-service search-and-seizure standing unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches warrantless-search Is the warrantless search of a First Class sealed mail Priority package by a United States Postal Service mail carrier during the course and scope of …
22-6508 Joseph M. Evans v. Amy Helene Zubrensky District of Columbia 2023-01-10 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law court-precedent due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the warrantless surveillance of an individual's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment
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…
22-609 Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid multi-pronged test for determining government action in relation to electronic communication service providers compo…
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…
22-6378 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…
22-6345 Jeffrey Johnson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a 'controlled substance …
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room of a non-registered guest
22-549 Raymond J. Liddy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response Waived digital-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment internet-subscriber-information law-enforcement-search personal-data search-and-seizure subscriber-information warrant-requirement Does Internet subscriber information constitute a digital 'paper' or 'effect' under the Fourth Amendment?
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
22-6197 Albert Bautista Guzman v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Whether detectives investigating cases should practice integrity under the Due Process Clause of the 5th and 14th Amendments, preventing fabrication, …
22-6169 Shane Alan Nault v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment investigatory-stop rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure seizure-scope terry-stop traffic-stop Whether seizing an individual seated in a parked car in a private parking lot should be analyzed in the context of a 'traffic stop' under Rodriguez, o…
22-481 Daphne Moore v. United States First Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) curtilage fourth-amendment home home-curtilage police-technology reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance surveillance-camera Whether long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person's home and curtilage is a Fourth Amendment search
22-6127 In Re Harry Sur Green, III, et ux. 2022-11-21 Denied IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable se…
22-6075 Raheem Davis, aka Raheen Davis v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-6012 Paige Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-09 Denied IFP attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure utah-v-strieff Is it error to apply the attenuation test articulated in Brown v. Illinois to determine whether evidence discovered during an illegal search should be…
22-6026 Robert C. Stryker v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-evidence computer-files criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure social-worker-patient-privilege social-worker-privilege state-court-review warrantless-search Were the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when the contents of computer files held in evidence against him were revealed in warrantless s…
22-6024 Orentha James Pea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search criminal-procedure fernandez-rule fernandez-v-california fourth-amendment physical-presence randolph-exception randolph-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the objecting party to be physically present on the premises at the time of the search for the objection to be v…
22-6007 Jerry Word v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court ineffective-assistance-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct remand search-and-seizure standing Whether lower courts may reject a claim of fraud upon the court without addressing the issue or remanding the case
22-5898 Daren W. Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment government-search physical-trespass privacy privacy-expectation property-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant trespass Whether a wholly privacy-based exception to the Fourth Amendment's search warrant requirement can apply to exempt the government's search when it is a…
22-5846 Michael Pacelli v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance jurisdiction search-and-seizure statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Can a law enforcement agency seize evidence or record private phone calls without a warrant, and then use the gathered evidence against a defendant?
22-355 Kathy Lynn Carter v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-action cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence merit-system privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure telework-agreement unexcused-leave Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
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…
22-5813 Katherine Elizabeth Langhorst v. Texas Texas 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining search-and-seizure trial-procedure Was the evidence seized in this cause/case 'Fruits of The Poisonous Tree'?
22-5821 Felipe Noriega, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to extend a concluded traffic stop based on minimal, if any, suspicious factors
22-5744 Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. Hawaii 2022-10-03 Denied IFP animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment the same as the standard of reasonableness under negligence such that a finding of reason…
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 …
22-5697 Robert Capelli v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment private-plane search search-and-seizure vehicle-exception warrant-requirement Whether the vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to the search of a private plane
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?
22-5615 Santiago Villa v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreaso…
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
22-236 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 …
22-207 Volodymyr Kvashuk v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response Waived and injection of vague 'cybercrime' concepts automatic justification of law enforcement invasi cybercrime electronic-devices electronic-search fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement nexus nexus-analysis search-and-seizure unfounded-presumptions Whether the Ninth Circuit's analytical approach in weighing 'the nature of cybercrime' into its assessment of nexus to search one's home violates the …
22-5510 Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
22-5401 Ivan R. Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Did the U.S. District Court of Arizona have authority to impose a 302 warrant sanction under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2703 and 2705 without evidence to support th…
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
22-5273 Bradley Beauchamp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articulabl…
22-5213 Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check Whether a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop is a per se 'fishing expedition' under the attenuation doctrine
22-5198 Akeem Markiese Rogers v. Virginia Virginia 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence evidence-standard jurisdiction legal-standard possession procedural-review search-and-seizure writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
22-5205 Layla Coriz v. New Mexico New Mexico 2022-07-27 Denied IFP cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-5154 Myron Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record of the United States District Court c…
22-5083 William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
22-5065 O. L. v. Liliana Jara, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search consent digital-duplication fourth-amendment possessory-interest privacy search-and-seizure seizure When a crime victim's cell phone is searched, what is the scope of consent?
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…
22-5016 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…
22-5013 In Re Megan Kyte 2022-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment due-process false-arrest fourth-amendment habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure sixth-amendment unreasonable-search Was petitioner denied her Fourth Amendment right to a pro se habeas corpus
21-8260 Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search Whether the 11th Circuit erred in declining to entertain a 4th Amendment violation issue
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
21-8150 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment parole parole-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the lower courts erred in allowing the Petitioner's cell phone to be searched just because he was on State parole
21-8115 Latoya Nicole Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement search-and-seizure trespass unlawful-arrest use-of-force Whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a law enforcement officer from trespassing into a resident's home by shoving his foot into the doorway through th…
21-8069 Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas made a decision in this instant case that is in direct conflict with this Court's decision and gu…
21-1525 Antonio Daron Futrell v. Virginia Virginia 2022-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-exception cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the abandonment exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement allows the Government to conduct warrantless searches of the digital d…
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
21-8017 Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the defendant's motion to suppress
21-8018 Ramon Ortiz Perez v. Giselle Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit search-and-seizure standing supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four…
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?
21-7934 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…
21-7919 Raul Ambriz-Villa, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-questioning search-and-seizure traffic-stop Does the Fourth Amendment limit police questioning during a traffic stop?
21-7899 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
21-7889 Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search Did the pat-frisk of Mr. Bailey-Sweeting violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment?
21-7874 William Meyer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry knock-and-talk search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a homeowner's repeated denials of consent to search during a 'knock and talk' establishes exigent circumstances, specifically that the destruc…
21-7779 Gilberto Juarez v. California California 2022-05-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-7737 Justin L. Douglas v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights counsel criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence search-and-seizure standing trial-strategy Did the Supreme Court of Wisconsin err in ruling on the defendant's right to effective counsel?
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…
21-7681 Oniel McKenzie v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP canine-sniff curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-interest privacy-interests search search-and-seizure storage-unit Whether a warrantless canine sniff of the exterior of a private storage unit to detect contraband inside the unit constitutes a search in violation of…
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
21-1364 Mordechai Korf, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Amici (2) attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure department-of-justice filter-team government-attorneys judicial-review search search-and-seizure work-product-protection Whether filter-team procedures like the ones in this case are invalid because they undermine the attorney-client-privilege
21-7665 Robert Daniel Solove v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-records cell-site-location comprehensive-chronicle fourth-amendment government-access ip-address ip-address-tracking privacy-rights search search-and-seizure user-movement Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical IP address records for a mobile app that provide a com…
21-7654 Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review Whether the California Supreme Court erred when it denied petitioners' request for review on the summary denial of petitioners' writ of mandate and pr…
21-7639 Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues and Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues were correctly interpreted, or contr…
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…
21-7585 Jayson McNeil v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure traffic-stop Did the Trial Court err in denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress evidence from a traffic stop and resulting search and seizure that was uncons…
21-7577 Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied IFP automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
21-1330 Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether respondent violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
21-7556 Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. v. Stephen R. Clark, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process federal-claim federal-damages fourth-amendment governmental-privilege search-and-seizure Does violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure give rise to a federal claim for damages
21-7525 Jerome Perkins v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Whether the traffic stop was legal
21-7508 Draven Greene v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles
21-7417 James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied IFP cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-1251 Eric Ibarguen v. New York New York 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-invasion home-privacy law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure social-guests unreasonable-search Whether social guests are entitled to Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches of the home they are visiting
21-7387 Henry E. Wood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest has c…
21-7375 Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop?
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…
21-7287 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…
21-7274 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…
21-7182 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…
21-1163 Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law Did the courts below commit error by failing to recognize federal law?
21-7100 Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-10 Denied IFP cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred by denying the petitioner's motion to suppress cell-site information
21-1091 Edwin Espejo v. Washington Washington 2022-02-07 Denied clear-and-present-danger community-care-exception community-caretaking domestic-violence due-process fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Does the community care exception to the fourth amendment allow police officers to remain in a person's home when they have determined that there is n…
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…
21-7038 Jeremy William Lillich v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment identification reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop warrant-execution Did the lower courts depart from the accepted course of judicial proceedings by allowing detention based on dispelled reasonable suspicion?
21-6990 Roger D. Roberts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-standard habeas-corpus informant-credibility police-misconduct search-and-seizure state-court-review Whether the prosecutor's use of evidence obtained from a confidential informant was lawful, where the informant's credibility was questionable
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
21-6890 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 …
21-6911 Stanley Aron Cavienss v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights due-process property-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the actions of the respondents
21-6912 Jamar Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
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
21-6899 John B. Alberts v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception container criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laptop-computer laptop-evidence private-property search-and-seizure Whether Trial Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Computer Evidence on the Ground that a Search Pursuant to the Automobile Excepti…
21-6824 Dwight Frederick Barnes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment geolocation-warrant good-faith-doctrine nexus search-and-seizure warrant-requirements warrantless-searches Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the lis…
21-6827 Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia Virginia 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing 4th-amendment-rights,electronic-communication-privacy-act,5th-amendment-rights,6th-amendment-rights,8th-amendment-rights,sex-offender-registration
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
21-6800 Abdulkhaliq Mohammed Murshid, aka Andy v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment business-records civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-action law-enforcement prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure Whether officers can search a business without a search warrant
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…
21-6755 Kenny Pugh v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained from an unlawful sea…
21-6756 Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine Whether rie, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the violation of civil-rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative-function, acts c…
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
21-940 Kentucky v. Jared McCarthy Kentucky 2021-12-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived blood-test criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment impaired-driving mandatory-minimum search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of a defendant's refusal of a blood test in an impaired-driving prosecution
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
21-6725 Russ Scohy v. Pinellas County Code Enforcement Division Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-trespass pro-se pro-se-access property-rights search-and-seizure takings warrant-violation Whether trespass by government officials without a warrant, illegal search and seizure, and excessive fees resulting in loss of property violate const…
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
21-901 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
21-874 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to violate petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6535 Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with …
21-6546 Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unc…
21-841 Michael Smallwood v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-agency government-liability liberty-interest search-and-seizure standing Can state and federal agencies use private entities as agents to commit unlawful search and seizure and deprivation of liberty interest to medical car…
21-814 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. First Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied 4th-amendment cady-v-dombrowski community-caretaking home-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Did this Court's opinion in Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1978) clearly establish that the community caretaking exception applied only to warrantl…
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…
21-6441 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attorney-performance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington warrantless-search Was counsel's refusal to file a meritorious, dispositive motion to suppress the fruits of a warrantless search unreasonable under Strickland v. Washin…
21-6417 Mausean Carter v. Maryland Maryland 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law Whether the lower courts' decision conflicts with an important federal question
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…
21-6392 Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search Where a BERT is created by the government accompanied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless …
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
21-6370 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…
21-6309 Patrick Andrew Smith, Jr. v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process health-care healthcare-regulations medical-records prescription-guidelines search-and-seizure strict-scrutiny unsettled-area-of-law Where the plaintiff's fundamental right to medical treatment is violated
21-6290 George Steven Burch v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search data-retention digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure smartphone-data warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the government duplicating, retaining, and warrantlessly searching the entire digital contents of a smartphone …
21-6294 Robert Michael Junkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' motion to suppress evidence
21-6305 Eric Volk v. State Bar of California California 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Can The Spate bar of CAIIFOCWA cJos2 . a Complaint an my BHerreo Ms. Lance Brown, Where rules ef profcfsyone| Condect, dnd ng Ave proces Whrk Ve oat l…
21-6251 Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the…
21-6243 Richard Barnhart, Jr. v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial ohio-appellate-court search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Is a Petitioner denied his due process rights when the Ohio Appellate Court applies an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in reg…
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?
21-6186 Faruq Rose v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the petitioner had no reasonable expectation of pri…
21-6191 Julio Hernandez-Pacheco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-precedent circuit-split constitutional-violation davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule hudson-v-michigan identity-evidence illegal-search search-and-seizure vehicle-stop may-identity-related-evidence-be-suppressed-under-exclusionary-rule
21-6154 Shawn Ford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-belief residence search-and-seizure third-party-consent Whether a third party's apparent authority to consent to a search of a criminal suspect's residence requires that the police reasonably believe that t…
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 …
21-5968 Timothy Stemen v. Florida Florida 2021-10-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Did law enforcement violate the petitioner's due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings
21-5976 Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the police were required to obtain a search warrant before submitting trash items to a forensic lab to extract DNA and create a DNA profile fo…
21-541 Travis Tuggle v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (6) curtilage fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance Whether long-term, continuous, and surreptitious video surveillance of a home and its curtilage constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment
21-5913 Desmond S. Gaines v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 911-tip anonymous-tip anonymous-tips corroboration drug-sales reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure terry-stop totality-of-circumstances Whether an anonymous 911 tip that implies the person sold drugs in a public area provides reasonable suspicion to seize the person without first corro…
21-5885 Michael Alan Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arbitration-award civil-rights district-court due-process federal-law legal-precedent manifest-disregard motion-to-vacate qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's Fourth Amendment claims regarding an allegedly unconstitutional search and seizure
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…
21-5902 Alhakka Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements Whether a warrant that authorizes police to seize a smart phone and search it for 'all electronic data' is invalid because it is insufficiently partic…
21-5904 Joseph Woods v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure standing Can a court render a decision without first deciding on a question of law or fact requested by the petitioner?
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…
21-5819 Rahem Lipford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage fourth-amendment home-privacy search-and-seizure trash-pull trespass Whether a trash pull which took place at Lipford's home, from a location where trash cans were not kept when they were put out for regular collection,…
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…
21-5771 Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Whether officers' search of a defendant's house without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment
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
21-5707 Jamaal Gittens v. Melissa T. Pavlack, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Lehigh County Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-5679 Toye Tutis v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-simulator criminal-procedure fourth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure wiretap wiretap-order Whether employment of a 'cell-site simulator' constituted a Fourth Amendment violation?
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
21-5612 Geontay Patterson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the district court and appellate court improperly found justification for the search and seizure of Mr. Patterson
21-341 William J. Cost, et al. v. Borough of Dickson City, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied 4th-amendment 911-call civil-rights domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-assistance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Whether the court of appeals erred when it held exigent circumstances existed based solely on a 911 call about a domestic disturbance from a disgruntl…
21-5456 Yarlin Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress?
21-5467 Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
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?
21-5394 Michael Nathaniel Boyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the court should grant certiorari, vacate the circuit's ruling, and demand further consideration in light of Strickland v. Washington and Napu…
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
21-5352 Vernon D. Nelson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied IFP border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion …
21-5323 Scott Trader v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records fourth-amendment government-surveillance ip-address privacy privacy-rights search search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical I.P. address records for a mobile app that provide a c…
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…
21-5283 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…
21-5265 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…
21-5227 Sergio Bahena v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment home-search investigative-alerts search-and-seizure Did the Appellate Court of Illinois violate Petitioners Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, by denying his petition due to the differentiation …
21-5242 Joshua Sadat Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence search-and-seizure suppression-hearing Did Hee Witdinivk tot trv i wenyng He veogenwng — OF the Suppression hearing , Whee Met vé gt thets Ye levont fo the fete Hinting [(WOCEF?
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
21-5211 Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense?
21-5163 Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent absen…
21-54 In Re Chad Anthony Ray 2021-07-15 Denied constitutional-rights controlled-substances criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-rights marijuana-criminalization political-question search-and-seizure Whether federal marijuana laws are constitutional
21-42 Sylvia Black v. Peace Officer Christine Vitello, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-entry judicial-authorization law-enforcement-misconduct search-and-seizure standing warrant-forgery Whether peace officers violated the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights by forging a judge's signature on a warrant to enter the plaintiffs' premises …
21-5078 James Michael Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach personal-property search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
21-16 Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing Does a Petitioner need to be charged with a crime and arrested for him to have Locus Standi
21-5038 Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 prohibit law enforcement officers from using excessive force against individuals who are handcuf…
21-5008 Brittany Crownhart v. Anne Magill Collins Tenth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-review property-rights search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the warrantless search and seizure of the petitioner's property
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…
20-8421 Braulio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony Issue 1
20-8389 Asa Lea, aka Asa Lorenzo-Lamiyah Lea v. United States District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error exclusionary-rule illegal-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure tangible-evidence Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Lea's Motion to Suppress Illegal Tangible Evidence?
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
20-8366 Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Did the district court err by suppressing evidence illegally seized with a warrant obtained by the use of false statements violating Petitioners' Four…
20-8335 George A. Christian, Jr. v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
20-1747 Erich Sorenson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-06-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection curtilage due-process fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing warrantless-arrest Whether the hallway area immediately adjacent to an apartment, in a private multi-family dwelling that is not open to the public, is part of the curti…
20-1755 Dean Hotop, et al. v. City of San Jose, California Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Amici (2) business-records compelled-disclosure criminal-sanctions due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review landlord landlord-rights search search-and-seizure Does City of San Jose Ordinance 30032 require a landlord to produce and transmit business records to the City under threat of criminal sanctions witho…
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…
20-8243 Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search Did the Michigan court of appeals erroneously expand the defendant's consent to retrieve a telephone number from his smartphone into a consent to sear…
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?
20-8160 Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether a sweatshirt bulge alone gives an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop a person under Terry v. Ohio
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure Does the intentional use of the *67 feature create a justifiable expectation of privacy?
20-8122 Andi Mustafa v. Michigan Michigan 2021-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-withdrawal search-and-seizure search-warrant Plea-withdrawal-issues
20-8109 Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in affirming the defendant's conviction for possession of child pornography, second offense, de…
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
20-8112 Richard Knider Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
20-8083 Derrick Baer v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision …
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
20-8055 Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-system material-perjury perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure trial-procedure Whether the entire affidavits of probable cause are based on completely material perjury
20-8065 Arthur Greaves v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-doctrine miranda-warning new-york-v-quarles private-property public-safety-exception search-and-seizure Does the public safety exception to the Miranda doctrine as set forth in New York v. Quarles, apply to private property, simply based on allegations t…
20-8027 Anthony G. Bryant v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys Fourth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
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 …
20-8014 Kelvin Baez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable-discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search?
20-7906 Gerald J. Silva v. United States First Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
20-7914 Danny Ray Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether an officer must expressly state that he is seeking consent for a forensic, not just a manual, search of a cell phone
20-7896 John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied IFP actual-prejudice criminal-investigation due-process fourth-amendment pre-indictment-delay prescription-drug-monitoring prescription-drug-monitoring-program search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a law enforcement officer to search the Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Program without a warrant
20-7872 Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300?
20-1443 Candace Aguilera, aka Candace Sgaggio v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment free-exercise implied-license indigenous-rights private-property search-and-seizure spiritual-property standing How long can government agents stay on private spiritual property after implied license is revoked?
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 …
20-1438 Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity
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
20-7651 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…
20-7640 Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit Whether counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to object to presentence report and failing to raise objection to lack of restitution rec…
20-7612 Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2021-03-31 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop May a court uphold a Terry frisk where the frisking officer did not actually suspect that the detainee was armed and dangerous?
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?
20-7567 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for a warrantless search of a person's home based on exigent circumstances when the person is not pres…
20-7550 John Roosevelt Baccus v. South Carolina Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-03-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the court below erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims without adjudicating the merits
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
20-1319 Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error search-and-seizure unreasonable-search whether-the-fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-erred-in-its-plain-error-analysis
20-7524 Mathew Ryan Byrd v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review parolee probationer search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search and seizure of a person's home and personal effects based solely on the person's status …
20-1299 Eric S. Clark v. City of Williamsburg, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived castle curtilage fourth-amendment general-warrant home implied-license law-enforcement physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Should the court adopt the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment by holding that a search of a home(castle) is unreasonable when the implied licens…
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…
20-7423 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…
20-7374 Demitrius Wayne Alexander v. Joseph Headley, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the state and federal courts erred when evidence obtained from an unconstitutional search and seizure was used against petitioner Demetrius Wa…
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
20-7329 Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop
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…
20-7319 Jamaa I. Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-1204 Mark Ringland v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) digital-evidence electronic-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure trespass united-states-v-jacobsen Whether compelling someone's emails from his or her electronic service provider and opening them is a trespass, and therefore a 'search,' under the Fo…
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'…
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement Whether a person can abandon their privacy right to an item by merely leaving it behind without evidence of intentional abandonment
20-1202 William J. Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) email-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion government-search private-actor property-based property-rights reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure Whether the property-based approach to the Fourth Amendment applies to the government's warrantless search of email attachments compelled from a priva…
20-7265 Jonathan Lindsey v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage dwelling-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights narcotics-detection reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the government's warrantless use of a narcotics detection dog on a dwelling without curtilage violates the resident's Fourth Amendment right a…
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…
20-7260 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
20-7271 Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment illinois-v-caballes k9-deployment rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the rule in Illinois v. Caballes, 543 U.S. 405, 135 S.Ct. 834, 160 L.Ed. 2d 842 applies to the deployment of a K9 during a traffic stop
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…
20-7247 Walter Eugene Powell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the warrantless search and seizure of his hotel room
20-7256 James Timothy Cobb v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to…
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…
20-7189 Bernard Thomas v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
20-7208 Bruce Harold Hendler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split detention exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming the denial of a motion to suppress a detention and seizure …
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…
20-7119 Javier Alejandro Moline-Borroto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment checkpoint-seizure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-encounter prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the lower courts erred by finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to transform a suspicionless checkpoint seizure into a prolonged i…
20-7096 Brian Edward Reynolds v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule federal-court mandate search-and-seizure standing Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
20-7097 Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. New Mexico 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-7098 Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether the police officer must actively be pursuing a lawful means of obtaining evidence prior to the occurrence of the illegal misconduct under the …
20-1060 Jose Oliva v. Mario Nivar, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-remedy constitutional-violation federal-police fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure Whether claims against federal police for Fourth Amendment violations committed during standard law enforcement operations fall within an established …
20-7027 Susanne Stephanie Nikola Kynast v. Florida Florida 2021-02-03 Denied IFP civil-rights custodia-legis due-process evidence evidence-custodian motion-to-suppress nolle-prosequi property property-seizure search-and-seizure writ-of-mandamus Is Petitioner entitled to the return of property taken as evidence without a warrant and held in custodia-legis subsequent to a motion-to-suppress in …
20-7002 Ryan C. Lander v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search Is it constitutional to prosecute citizens for cybercrime under the interstate-commerce clause
20-6989 Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
20-6990 Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona Arizona 2021-01-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI?
20-6960 DeAndre McMichaels v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment concealed-carry fourth-amendment law-enforcement public-carry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether an officer's belief that a person is armed allows the officer to infer for purposes of a Terry search that the person is 'presently dangerous'…
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…
20-6898 Lewis Anderson v. California Ninth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure standing suppress-writ-of-habeas-corpus Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's federal petition for writ of habeas corpus based on a time bar procedure that commands the…
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
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said they reviewed 'an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo,' did they fail…
20-6839 Henry Alexander Townsend v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absent-homeowner common-authority fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures requires the government to obtain a warrant before conducting a searc…
20-896 Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-07 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement whether-the-community-caretaking-exception-extends-to-the-home
20-6771 Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States First Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search
20-6774 Craig B. Snoddy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on invent…
20-6753 Andre Martel Winn v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery-exception
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'…
20-6721 Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated?
20-6724 Kaseem Alexander v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process gun-range property-rights search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing target-shooting Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreas…
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
20-6716 Mack Calvin Martin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's alleged pretrial bias against him violated his due process rights
20-6725 Larry Durant v. South Carolina South Carolina 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6697 Damon O’Neil v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the modified Franks v. Delaware 438 U.S. 154 (1978) rule announced by the Eighth Circuit allowing for deletion and retroactive replacement of …
20-6701 Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a third party has expectation of privacy in cell-phone data obtained without a warrant
20-6704 Agustin Calderon v. Texas Texas 2020-12-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
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
20-6654 Gabino Romero v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudice search-and-seizure standing Whether the conduct of the United States in conducting research prior to deliberation on a trial judge's decision violated the 4th Amendment
20-6647 Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to…
20-6648 Gezo Goeong Edwards, aka Gezo Edwards, aka Zo v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus privacy search-and-seizure standing state-court-conviction Whether the government's warrantless acquisition of cell-site location information violates the Fourth Amendment
20-823 Robert Lee Crider v. Texas Texas 2020-12-17 Denied blood-extraction bodily-intrusion chemical-analysis fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation search search-and-seizure warrant warrant-scope Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when the government extracts a blood sample by compelled intrusion into a person's body and then chemicall…
20-6608 Zachary Michael Patten v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense investigation medication mental-health search-and-seizure Question not identified
20-6580 Joseph W. Peeples, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure travel warrantless-search Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, along with the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, allow any person suspected of a crime to freely trav…
20-6544 Randall S. Overton v. Matt Macauley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6495 Michael Alford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-seizure personal-property property-return property-rights riley-v-california search-and-seizure Whether the court erred in refusing to return personal property
20-6505 Roosevelt Bigbee, Jr. v. Johnny Fitz, Warden Tennessee 2020-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated
20-6472 Raquel Cortez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the same rule applies when an officer extends a traffic stop to allow border patrol agents to arrive without reasonable suspicion or other law…
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?
20-6467 Craig Howard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment co-tenant co-tenant-consent consent-to-search detention fernandez fourth-amendment law-enforcement physical-presence randolph reasonable-search search-and-seizure Does the lawful detention of an objecting co-tenant in a squad car on the premises to be searched make him absent such that another co-tenant may cons…
20-6453 Marcos Alejandro Gonzalez Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-hearing suppression-motion witness-testimony Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, or some other authority guarantees a criminal defendant …
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…
20-6421 In Re Timothy J. Richards 2020-11-24 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
20-6392 Peter Gakuba v. United States District of Columbia 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights declaratory-relief electronic-communications federal-circuit-court privacy privacy-protection search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Carpenter v. United States decision extends to cell-site location information obtained from a third-party cell phone provider without a wa…
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…
20-6238 Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site locat…
20-6194 Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. Texas 2020-11-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a cell phone's digital contents and location information by a private citizen debt collector violates th…
20-6200 Randall Gray Webb v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information constitutional-law privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site lo…
20-6181 Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
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 …
20-6150 Andres Keyon Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b…
20-6139 Pedro Alvarado v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreaso…
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?
20-6086 Brittan Kettles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6068 Willie Gross, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6055 Terrill Bernard Weatherspoon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment companion-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety pat-down-search reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Must an officer have a reasonable suspicion that a companion of an arrestee is armed and dangerous, independently of a reasonable suspicion that the a…
20-6012 Allen Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-defect discovery-violations due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment indictment-defects insufficient-evidence perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure Question not identified
20-5972 John Garrett Smith v. Ronald Hayes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure search-and-seizure standing suppression-of-evidence Whether a court can acquire subject matter jurisdiction over a criminal charge when the warrant used to search a smartphone is invalid because the aff…
20-5991 Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated
20-456 Michael Elder v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-procedure official-misconduct party-presentation search-and-seizure supervisee-rights supervisee-search suspicionless-search Whether the Second Circuit violated the party presentation principle
20-5955 Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sear…
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…
20-5942 John Tran v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule
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
20-5907 Joseph Peterson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights computer-seizure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech search-and-seizure trial-court written-materials Did the trial court violate Mr. Peterson's Due Process of Law when denying written materials seized from his computer when those materials were protec…
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
20-412 Mark Stanford Katzman v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-01 Denied digital-privacy digital-trespass fourth-amendment police-impersonation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing standing-to-challenge trespass Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to undetectably impersonate the owner of a phone via text message, and arrest another person by means …
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…
20-5829 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?
20-5843 Courtney C. Brown v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-authority reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-us search search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Should the Court reverse Pennsylvania v. Mimms?
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
20-5794 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?
20-5744 Antonio Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights expectation-of-privacy private-property search-and-seizure standing Whether trial counsel failed to bring the issue of the defendant's expectation of privacy in a rental car parked on his private property to the attent…
20-5747 Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched?
20-5718 Raheim Abdullah Trice v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apartment-building covert-surveillance fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure surveillance unlawful-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement official entering an unlocked apartment building, without permission and without a warrant, placing a 'covert camera' disgui…
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…
20-5637 Limmia Page v. New York New York 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights color-of-law customs-and-border-patrol federal-preemption fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-stop Whether a citizen loses the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures because an on-duty federal agent acting under color of law makes …
20-5601 Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant Does the conflict of the particularity required for computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth Circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights?
20-5560 Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside invest…
20-5568 Alex Alberto Castro v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps
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
20-253 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Whether the community caretaking exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to warrantless, unconsented-to entries by police offi…
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?
20-5390 Michael Betts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation
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
20-157 Edward A. Caniglia v. Robert F. Strom, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-13 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) community-caretaking constitutional-law fourth-amendment home home-search law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the 'community caretaking' exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to the home
20-5351 Terry Alexander Wade v. Stanley Williams, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process personal-property search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
20-5322 Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska Alaska 2020-08-11 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures Whether the decision of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals is consistent with the Fourteenth-Amendment, Sixth-Amendment, Fourth-Amend…
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
20-5309 Michael Owen Harriot v. Department of Justice, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process law-enforcement 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 personal property wit…
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
20-5262 Stephen Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones and Carpenter v. United States be applied retroactively under Title 28 U.S.C. § 2253
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?
20-5246 Jerry Luke v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained through a warrantless search
20-104 Brian Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived blood-draw breath-test excessive-force force fourth-amendment medical-consent needle-phobia search-and-seizure warrant Fourth-Amendment
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'…
20-5190 Christian Rodriguez v. United States District Court for the District of Nevada, Reno, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule miranda-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Court recognizes that Law Enforcement and the Court cannot simply expect to use illegally obtained evidence despite Miranda violations
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…
20-5182 Jesse Williams v. Bryan Wells, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure unlawful-conduct Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search of a person's home based on the exigent circumstances exception when the police created …
20-5139 Algere Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-district-court fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing supervised-release Can a federal district court bar the use of the Exclusionary Rule during the petitioner's violation of supervised release hearing?
20-5099 Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals conflicts with Terry-v-Ohio
20-5091 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 GVR IFP vacate the judgement and remand for reconsiderati 4th-amendment case-reconsideration certiorari criminal-procedure Davis-remand davis-v-united-states judicial-remand precedent-application remand search-and-seizure Supreme-Court-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgement and remand for reconsideration in light of Davis v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 1060 (2…
20-25 Isidoro Rodriguez v. Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board Virginia 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-5062 Paul Byrd v. Florida Florida 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement ruse-checkpoint search-and-seizure Whether a 'ruse checkpoint' that focuses on those who attempt to avoid the checkpoint violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution
20-5074 Robert Banks, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination?
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…
20-5044 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena?
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
19-1468 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
19-8842 Angel Prado v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction search-and-seizure sentencing-standards speedy-trial Question not identified
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?
19-8822 Eddie Montero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
19-1423 George Vortman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response Waived exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
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…
19-1414 United States v. Joshua James Cooley Ninth Circuit 2020-06-24 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment indian-law indian-tribe-authority law-enforcement-authority non-indian non-indian-rights public-lands public-right-of-way reservation reservation-jurisdiction search-and-seizure state-and-federal-law tribal-law-enforcement Whether the lower courts erred in suppressing evidence
19-8809 Brandon Lee Alexander v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery inventory-search law-enforcement primary-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the inevitable discovery rule exception to the exclusionary rule applies to primary evidence discovered during an unconstitutional warrantless…
19-8697 Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-06-18 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule
19-8747 Robert Neil Coronado v. Amanda Stinson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-integrity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Was a procedural due process violation committed by the Court of Appeals in failing to grant a rehearing on the probability of admission of evidence o…
19-8749 Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unre…
19-8725 Jarvis Lee Glenn v. Michigan Michigan 2020-06-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections defendants-rights due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review search-and-seizure standing state-appeal Did the State of Michigan Supreme Court deny Glenn the equal protection under the state and federal constitution when it rubber-stamped Dr. Glenn's ap…
19-8722 Margaret Morris-Calderon v. The James Randi Educational Foundation California 2020-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
19-8715 Timothy Robert Treffinger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to conduct a 'knock and talk' in the curtilage of a home?
19-8678 Robert Michael Fall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment multiplicitous-counts reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure standing Did the District Court and Court of Appeals rely on inapplicable exceptions to the exclusionary rule, violating Mr. Fall's Fourth Amendment rights?
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 '…
19-1309 Kari Janae Phipps v. Idaho Idaho 2020-05-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment detention detention-authority fourth-amendment michigan-v-summers probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion residence-check search-and-seizure search-warrant summers-doctrine Whether the 'limited authority to detain' during the execution of a judicially approved search warrant for contraband, Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 6…
19-8509 Joaquin Gonzales v. California California 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP alpr automated-license-plate-reader evidence-standard fourth-amendment license-plate physical-movements reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Did a detective's warrantless search of an ALPR database for images and locations of Petitioner's license plate violate petitioner's Fourth Amendment …
19-8506 David James Ward v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures
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
19-8494 Michael Lustig v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure standing Whether failure to suppress evidence resulting from an illegal search amounted to a violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights
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?
19-1286 In Re Nina Shahin 2020-05-13 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-application fourth-amendment-interpretation search-and-seizure unreasonable-search Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
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…
19-8370 Cynthia Fisher v. Walgreen Co. Fourth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
19-8318 William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat…
19-8309 Cynthia Fisher v. Frontline National Fourth Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
19-8298 David M. Kissi v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fbi fbi-warrant fourth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence miranda-rights search-and-seizure Whether the trial court overlooked evidence that the FBI had Petitioner arrested and searched his home with writs that were inadmissible because they …
19-8246 Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection again…
19-8249 Rodney Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bell-v-wolfish constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment handcuffed-individual minor-offense public-search search-and-seizure strip-search unreasonable-search Whether a public strip search of a handcuffed, detained individual suspected of a minor offense violates one's Fourth Amendment right to be free from …
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…
19-8212 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…
19-8194 Jonathan Crupi v. New York New York 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights data-collection digital-privacy electronic-devices exploratory-searches fourth-amendment particularity particularity-doctrine search-and-seizure Should the Carpenter decision on CSLI extend to digital devices?
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?
19-8069 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…
19-8077 Arnold Anderson v. Gilberto Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's property for the purpose of conducting a forensic search of the property'…
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…
19-8025 Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression harmless-error involuntary-statement miranda-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Arkansas Court of Appeals erred in finding that the admission of an allegedly involuntary statement was harmless error
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…
19-1112 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…
19-7950 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?
19-7881 Tavares L. Farrington v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po…
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?
19-1059 Angela Hamm, et vir v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement-search privacy privacy-rights probation probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether police violate the Fourth Amendment when they conduct a suspicionless search of a probationer's home
19-1057 Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called 'community caretaking' where the alleged danger to the commu…
19-7716 Timmy Wallace v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment database-search fourth-amendment police-database reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-identification Does Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015) permit a traffic stop to be extended based on a suspicion that had already been dispelled by p…
19-1021 Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant
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…
19-7667 Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence Whether the promise to be free to leave after clearance of driver's license, vehicle papers, and warrants with issuance of a warning traffic citation …
19-7628 Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether Mr. Guyn's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated
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
19-7631 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…
19-996 Lindsay Waters v. Georgia Georgia 2020-02-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights coercion due-process dui dui-testing fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to coerce submission to a warrantless blood test
19-991 Samson Primm v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture forfeiture-case fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing suppression-hearing Whether one who has the requisite standing to move to suppress based on contentions, which if validated show his Fourth Amendment rights were violated…
19-7583 Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure Whether Tiffany R. Byrd #61935 was entitled to relief on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on trial counsel's failure to investigate an…
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
19-7605 Vincent Kane v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones fourth-amendment intent-to-reclaim password-protected property-rights public-place reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure Whether the doctrine of abandonment applies to password protected cell phones found in a public place?
19-7533 Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure state-court state-court-decision unreasonable-application Whether Law Enforcement Authorities engaged in tactics and procedures designed to circumvent Petitioner's Constitutional protected rights guaranteed b…
19-7519 Ericka Hernandez-Nunez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-detection criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment holistic-analysis inculpatory-evidence law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-inference reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment requirement of reasonableness requires that a determination of reasonable suspicion be based upon an explicit identificat…
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?
19-7507 Tommy Gurule v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search?
19-7477 Raul Mejia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a…
19-7489 Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon Whether the Circumstances regarding the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule § 2010F not evolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of evidence…
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…
19-7432 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
19-7438 Javion Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement-action parole post-release-supervision probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure special-needs-search united-states-v-knights warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search of a North Carolina post-release supervisee is a special-needs probationary search or a law-enforcement search
19-7439 Saddam Samaan Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment hotel-guest-registration law-enforcement reasonable-search search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine warrantless-search Did Petitioner have a sufficient expectation of privacy in hotel guest registration information that a warrantless demand to the innkeeper for product…
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure Question not identified
19-7392 Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement constitutes abandonment
19-7373 Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi…
19-7311 Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether the authorities of the Municipal Government of the City of Omaha failed to properly train their officials and employees
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…
19-7241 William Gene Cox, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-assault civil-rights confidential-informant confidential-informants constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search Should law enforcement be allowed to utilize armed assaults by confidential informants as pretext for circumventing the Fourth Amendment guarantee aga…
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…
19-7209 Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)?
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
19-7195 Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado Colorado 2020-01-07 Denied IFP cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement Whether the Colorado statute on complicity in sex trafficking violates the First Amendment and due process rights of the defendant by criminalizing sp…
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?
19-7128 Mojisola Popoola v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment digital-evidence encrypted-devices encryption fifth-amendment miranda-warnings police-custody search-and-seizure self-incrimination standing suppression testimonial-conduct testimonial-evidence Whether the physical act of a person in police custody responding to a request to enter her passcode to unlock an encrypted cellphone is testimonial c…
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…
19-7106 Peter Woodley v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-to-search lawful-possession reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-car search-and-seizure standing Whether an unauthorized driver of a rental car maintains lawful possession and control of the car where there are modest violations of the rental car …
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…
19-7055 In Re Charlene Rosa 2019-12-23 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure strickland-v-washington Whether the state court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by denying his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, denial of due proce…
19-7035 Michael B. Lowry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Does the government bear the burden of proving that the attenuation doctrine applies to preclude suppression of evidence after an illegal search or se…
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?
19-7020 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
19-7022 Jesus D. Cruz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner, that the officers never producted a valid search wa…
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
19-6963 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…
19-6943 Sheila Annette Cunningham v. Florida Credit Union Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights curtilage discrimination due-process employment equal-protection fourth-amendment investigative-authority law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing summary-judgment Whether the Jistia Couvt Cured Mol ding | Heat Curnningham Failes to prvite evidence of racial diSciminaton
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 …
19-6859 Michael A. Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Whether an officer with a motive to search for incriminating evidence may impound a vehicle and inventory its contents in contravention of the standar…
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…
19-694 Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession
19-661 Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure may bring a civil action against rogue agents under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of th…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
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
19-622 Thomas S. Bell v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived blood-test criminal-procedure driving-under-influence driving-under-the-influence due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a motorist's assertion of his Fourth Amendment right to refuse consent to a warrantless blood test may be used as evidence of guilt for the of…
19-6640 Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had violated federal law and in doing so, violated petitioner Bradley's Fo…
19-6642 Michael Allen Channel v. Benjamin Marquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy search-and-seizure standing technology Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and …
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object…
19-6602 Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance Whether a cell phone is a 'tracking device' under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b)
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…
19-6607 Robert Allen Stanford v. Jay Clayton District of Columbia 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discretionary-function due-process extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sec-enforcement securities sovereign-immunity Whether the SEC's civil enforcement action against Stanford International Bank, Ltd. in Antigua violated the claimant's due-process rights
19-6625 Samuel R. Jones v. Erica Huss Sixth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity question-not-identified search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-6573 Garron Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during warrantless interception of incoming calls on a jailed probationer's cell p…
19-6581 Javier Leon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance material-variance methamphetamine-charge search-and-seizure Whether counsel's failure to subject the government's case to strict adversarial testing, by reason of a fickle, bare-bones 'mere presence' theory of …
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…
19-6512 Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendants' warrantless seizure and search of the plaintiffs' home violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches an…
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…
19-551 Ronald Calzone v. Eric Olson, Superintendent, Missouri State Highway Patrol Eighth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-discretion civil-rights closely-regulated-industry constitutional-rights fourth-amendment search-and-seizure seizure warrantless-search Does the 'closely regulated industry' exception to the Fourth Amendment apply to persons who have not chosen to involve themselves in any business con…
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…
19-6332 Walter Glenn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car
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?
19-494 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…
19-6273 Henry Cyrus Lucas v. Florida Florida 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process liberty qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
19-6193 Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data incident to arrest when the phone is not immed…
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…
19-6154 Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as 'all data/software' pertaining to the crimes is off…
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…
19-6046 Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure Issues being raised
19-6060 Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does U.S. v. Knights and Griffin v. Wisconsin still precedent to be relied on?
19-6049 Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted
19-6008 David W. Tippens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
19-5897 Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL
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 …
19-327 Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. Ohio 2019-09-10 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop Whether facts that do not individually show or permit an inference of a connection between a person and a crime that had been committed nearby may, in…
19-5838 Glenn Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,supervised-release,probation,four home-search liberty liberty-interest probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure supervised-release whether-this-court-should-grant-certiorari-vacate- Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl…
19-5866 Jason Loera v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-courts electronic-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure state-courts technological-advances warrant-requirement Are the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort analyzing and applying the inevitable discovery doctrine in a manner eviscerating the F…
19-5868 William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin…
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?
19-5751 Charles Massengill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of…
19-5731 Angel Mesa Madueno v. California California 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent fourth-amendment independent-contractor privacy property-rights search-and-seizure standing trespass warrantless-entry Whether an independent contractor legitimately working in another's back yard has standing to contest a warrantless and non-exigent entry onto the pro…
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…
19-5670 Thomas James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment byrd-doctrine exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights passenger-standing rakas-v-illinois reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search Does a passenger have standing to challenge the search of a vehicle in which they have no ownership or possessory interest?
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 …
19-5600 Rafael Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol canine-sniff fourth-amendment free-air-sniff immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure united-states-v-martinez-fuerte May a Border Patrol agent working in the primary inspection lane of an interior immigration checkpoint extend the immigration stop beyond the 'brief q…
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…
19-5555 Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search Whether the police department's use of a 'void order' to conduct a warrantless search violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights
19-5440 Lena McCollum v. Hubert Peterkin, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP accrual civil-procedure civil-rights concealment constitutional-rights due-process executive-knowledge illegal-entry law-enforcement procedural-violation search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether the accrual date for a claim alleging illegal search and seizure is the date of execution for a defendant, who did not directly participate bu…
19-5445 Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,curtilage,gps- gps-tracking police-intrusion private-property search-and-seizure Whether unauthorized police intrusion into a private condominium enclave to install a GPS tracking device on a vehicle constitutes a Fourth Amendment …
19-5458 Samantha Winter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search whether-miranda-rights-were-violated
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?
19-5347 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 …
19-5341 Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights Whether the courts overlooked federal law and the U.S. Constitution when they overlooked the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, the 5th Amendment right …
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…
19-5320 Romon Lamont Dobbins v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure Was Petitioner's Conviction Sustained With Insufficient Evidence Beyond A Reasonable Doubt?
19-5283 Kyle Jason Korte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law Does the 'good faith exception' outlined in Illinois v. Krull extend to circumstances where the statute remains valid but was improperly applied?
19-5248 Garry Randall West v. Jason Bryant, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-pornography double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights miranda-warnings right-to-privacy search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Question not identified
19-5280 Charles D. Tuttoilmondo, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-07-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search border-patrol checkpoint-search civil-rights commercial-vehicles constitutional-reasonableness criminal-procedure drug-interdiction fourth-amendment roving-patrol search-and-seizure special-needs-doctrine Does Texas' use of commercial motor vehicle inspectors combined with a roving drug interdiction task force unconstitutionally and unreasonably abuse t…
19-5258 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP 60(b)(6) change-in-decisional-law change-in-law civil-procedure constitutional-relief decisional-law due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus relief rule-60(b) search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing Should relief under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b)(6) be available to habeas corpus petitioners when a change in decisional law occurs?
19-5218 In Re Teon Jamell Williams 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-evidence due-process exceptional-circumstances indictment indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity search-and-seizure short-form-indictment Was the conviction obtained by use of evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure?
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…
19-5167 Christian Don'tae Hood v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone co-defendant compelled-testimony compulsory-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights jury-instruction post-arrest-interview search-and-seizure self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in admitting the appellant's post-arrest interview when the government violated his Fifth Amendment rights by forcibly u…
19-5139 Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles
19-5081 David Morel, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,…
19-21 Gregory Owens v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant?
19-5045 Donald Lee Hathorn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-devices fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's requirement for Mr. Hathorn to submit his com…
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?
19-5002 Jared Len Cruse v. Texas Texas 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment cell-phone-evidence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the cell phone evidence was the product of a warrantless search and seizure and/or an illegal detention; and thus, whether this evidence can b…
19-5011 Danny P. Phipps v. New York New York 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-property burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-selection pro-se-representation property-abandonment search-and-seizure standing Can Appellate Division develop a rule that shifts the burden from the People to a defendant to prove he or she did not abandon property making it subj…
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…
18-9768 Keith Talbert v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process eminent-domain. standing takings civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
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…
18-9736 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant warrantless-search Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
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…
18-9694 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
18-9565 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
18-9571 Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure Whether the denial of petitioner's motion to suppress bullets conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of petitioner's Fourteenth …
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
18-1513 Michigan v. Michael Frederick, et al. Michigan 2019-06-05 Denied consent-to-search constitutional-trespass fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement predawn-visit search search-and-seizure trespass Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters
18-9520 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2019-06-03 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search Whether in light of Bollinger v. New Hampshire, 390 U.S. 1020, the Arizona based conviction of petitioner violates his Fourth Amendment rights where t…
18-9434 Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search Whether the trial and appellate court erred in adjudging that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warrantles…
18A1223 Keith Jerome Wright v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-28 Presumed Complete dna-evidence due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments require suppression of DNA evidence obtained through an allegedly unlawful arrest and seizure due to inef…
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…
18-9397 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…
18-9402 David Lester Jackson v. California California 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement warrantless-search Were-appellates Fourth Amend. rights violated
18-1458 Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos New Mexico 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit…
18-9381 Hubert Youte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied IFP border-search civil-rights fourth-amendment living-quarters maritime-law reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vessel vessel-search Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion to enter and search the living quarters on a vessel docked at the border
18-9359 Emmanuel Diaz v. New York New York 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison prison-security recordings search-and-seizure telephone telephone-recording telephone-recordings warrant-requirement Whether absent a warrant, notice, or suspicion the Fourth Amendment permits the government to obtain recordings of telephone conversations from pretri…
18-9255 Santosh Ram v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co…
18-9257 Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio Ohio 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to consider mitigating evidence during sentencing
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…
18-9177 Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
18-9096 Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9041 Peter Gakuba v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule free-speech search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the state court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained throug…
18-9042 Kingy Ossarius Holden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claims related to an unconstitutional search and seizure, ineffective assistance of trial …
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…
18-9036 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
18-9037 Rolander Brown v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act
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…
18-8971 William T. Liepe v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl…
18-8909 David Lee Gentles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1385 constitutional-violation evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-search law-enforcement-limits posse-comitatus-act search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence Should a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 1385) serve as a foundation for suppression of fruits of the resulting illegal sear…
18-8928 Alberto Julio Guillen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure standing Whether a warrantless entry and search, where the totality of the circumstances indicates that exigent circumstances had occurred, or was recovering e…
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
18-8849 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…
18-8811 Antonio Darset King, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment standing voir-dire Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in failing to grant petitioner King relief as to the denial of his motion to suppress the search warr…
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
18-1287 Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure Whether the use of a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrendered by sitting on the ground with his hands up violates the Fourth Amendment
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
18-8779 Yamura D. Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant Whether the 11th Circuit courts must suppress the fruits of the admitted to illegal search and seizure
18-8783 Daniel R. Kendricks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-warrant firearm fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety plain-view search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether law enforcement, when searching a residence pursuant to an arrest warrant, can initiate a separate search into any firearm that it encounters,…
18-8696 Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
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…
18-8650 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…
18-8629 Rogelio Barajas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process search-and-seizure sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment
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…
18-8578 DeMarius L. Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence Whether petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was convicted of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance beyond a …
18-8518 John Moses Burton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing When and how should the courts be bound to the precedent set by the high Court's opinion?
18-8522 Edwin Fernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Arizona-v-Gant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stages ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Montejo-v-Louisiana presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report right-to-counsel search-and-seizure search-doctrine Strickland-v-Washington Should a writ of certiorari be granted to address the shortcomings of counsel in light of Strickland-and-Montejo?
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 …
18-8508 Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight…
18-1219 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
18-8438 Abdul Cole v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability Whether the strip search and visual body cavity search of Mr. Cole violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizu…
18-8411 Lecephrus Pierce v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no …
18-8388 Brian Wright v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no 'egregious violation' of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular phone …
18-8402 Jesse Allen Dauenhauer, aka Jesse A. Dauenhauer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,exclusionary-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence washington-state-law Should the District Court have suppressed the evidence of firearms in the Defendant's car because the search and seizure was inadmissible under Washin…
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…
18-1166 Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-03-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop Whether Illinois v. Lidster allows the police to stop a criminal suspect without reasonable suspicion on the ground that the stop is merely 'informati…
18-8307 Dockery Cleveland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info…
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…
18-8202 Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when the …
18-8166 Bruce Dwayne Winston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data evidence-admissibility pretextual-stop reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure terry-stop unlawful-search-and-seizure Did the District Court err in admitting evidence obtained from an illegal Terry/pretextual stop in violation of the 4th Amendment?
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?
18-1099 Janie L. Robinson v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund Montana 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-bargain medical-examination new-york-central-v-white search search-and-seizure state-authority unconstitutional-conditions workers-compensation Unreasonable medical examinations in workers' compensation system violate Fourth Amendment, exceed 'Grand Bargain' limits, and improperly condition be…
18-1084 Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson Minnesota 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Retroactive application of Birchfield v. North Dakota rule on warrantless blood tests
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…
18-8034 Jesse Brewer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain property-rights standing takings 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-1078 James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Sixth Circuit misapplied Supreme Court precedent on Fourth Amendment curtilage, creating circuit split
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…
18-7950 Marquette Walker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure Does nonexclusive possession of a premises serve to establish constructive possession of items found within the premises?
18-7875 Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps Was Cannon denied his Fourth Amendment rights?
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
18-7811 Ronald Bishop Thompson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-testimony cell-site-location cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrant-requirement Did trial counsel perform ineffectively at Petitioner's second trial
18-7824 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc Whether the government can investigate and search a private citizen's computer and storage devices for allegedly illegal speech content obtained throu…
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
18-1007 Assem A. Abulkhair v. Google LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process email-privacy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-recusal law-enforcement-overreach privacy-rights recusal religious-discrimination search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether the District Judge has the authority to dismiss suit while his/her recusal remains pending and his/her disqualification and impartiality comes…
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?
18-7627 Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri Was the petitioner's Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizure?
18-986 Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child Tenth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response Waived child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals erred in determining that the Petitioners did not act in an objectively reasonable manner in relying on a state statute, …
18-954 Cory Speelman v. Ohio Ohio 2019-01-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) blood-draw fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure search-warrant unconscious unconscious-person warrant warrant-exception Should the Court revisit Birchfield v. North Dakota to resolve a split in the States: does the Fourth Amendment permit statutory 'implied consent' to …
18-7505 Demian Pina v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause daubert due-process ecpa ecpa-violation electronic-surveillance evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment kyllo search-and-seizure speedy-trial Does the use of computer/internet surveillance technology violate the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights?
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants
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…
18-943 Fairfield County, Ohio, et al. v. Neil A. Morgan, II, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied civil-rights constitutional-procedure fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement officer-safety perimeter-security search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from securing the perimeter of a residence, for officer safety, when conducting a lawf…
18-7425 Jovan Cooper v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the 4th Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-7465 Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the police violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights by conducting a warrantless search and seizure of the petitioner's property
18-915 Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search Whether producing identification without being requested justifies search for weapons several minutes later
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…
18-7309 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 …
18-870 Ilyas V. Ibragimov v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-01-08 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure seizures unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches vehicle-stop warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when his vehicle was stopped by law enforc…
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
18-7206 Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente
18-7184 Antione Chambers, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Twizzie v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrantless-search Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies
18-7163 Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search Did the defendants violate the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights?
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…
18-7124 Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search Does the Fourth Amendment protect against a 'fishing expedition' to develop 'reasonable suspicion' to exceed the scope of an initial stop in order to …
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?
18-7023 Webster Douglas Williams, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection exclusionary-rule forced-entry fourth-amendment restitution ruse search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel third-party When police officers attempt to gain voluntary admittance to a residence by use of a ruse, which fails, and are peacably asked to present a search war…
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…
18-6959 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
18-6963 Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable…
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
18-6905 Thomas Thadeus Szczerba v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied IFP affidavit-incorporation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception incorporation-of-affidavit search-and-seizure warrant-incorporation warrant-particularity warrant-particularization Does the Leon 'good-faith exception' to the exclusionary rule apply when a warrant fails to particularize the 'things to be seized' and fails to conta…
18-6875 Kendall Thrift v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing false-statements franks-hearing franks-v-maryland magistrate-judge ninth-circuit omissions search-and-seizure substantial-showing warrant-challenge Whether the Court should grant certiorari because the Ninth Circuit's decision that defendant Kendall Thrift had not made a substantial preliminary sh…
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…
18-6844 Christopher John Kerr v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight search-and-seizure standing void-warrant warrant-validity Should a void ab initio warrant issued by a judge be treated as if it never existed and, consequently, should evidence obtained pursuant thereto not b…
18-6810 Timothy Hickman-Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-v-bertine criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel inventory-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman vehicle-search Did inventory search violate this Court's decisions in South Dakota v. Opperman and Colorado v. Bertine, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the Consti…
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…
18-6775 Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur…
18-6734 Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private company…
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 …
18-6587 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
18-6505 Brian Powell v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109…
18-6496 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-argument appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-location cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-tracking constitutional-rights conviction-affirmance conviction-affirmation fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which failed to address Thomas's appellate argument that his Fourth Amendment rights were…
18-6484 Markus Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment pat-down police-procedure prior-incidents reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether factors based largely on prior incidents, some years old, can provide a police officer with the reasonable suspicion the Fourth Amendment requ…
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…
18-6422 Larry Norton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop Does a mistake of law by police in the stopping of a vehicle render the subsequent search violative of the Fourth Amendment?
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…
18-491 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…
18-478 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…
18-6318 Jeffrey Allen Ware v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Is the exclusionary rule properly limited solely to the purpose of deterring police misconduct or can/should it be used to enforce a clear constitutio…
18-6290 Damon John White Bird Solgado v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing IFP 4th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment insufficient-evidence privacy search-and-seizure Whether violation of Petitioner's 4th Amendment Constitutional rights occurred when Police illegally searched and seized Petitioner's files and record…
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…
18-6246 Michael Parnell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction property-rights reasons-for-granting-the-writ search-and-seizure standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether the government's seizure of petitioner's property without a warrant or probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unrea…
18-6210 Gerald P. Mitchell v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2)IFP blood-draw exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment implied-consent motorist-rights search-and-seizure unconscious-motorist warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether a statute authorizing a blood draw from an unconscious motorist provides an exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und…
18-407 Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia Virginia 2018-10-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-6163 Randy A. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 cell-site-simulator electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment pen-register search-and-seizure surveillance-log unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Did the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals fail to preserve the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right?
18-6122 Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure Whether a reasonable person would feel free to ignore a federal agent's direct accusation of drug possession and go about her business of boarding a p…
18-392 Aaron M. Richardson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search whether-cell-site-location-information-obtained-without-a-warrant-violates-the-fourth-amendment
18-6101 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. FJC Security Services, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment free-speech government-overreach retaliation search-and-seizure standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment were violated by the respondents'…
18-6116 Anthony Allen Jean v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to warrants void ab initio?
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…
18-6039 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
18-350 Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether police must obtain a warrant before searching cell phone data on a lost but passcode-protected phone
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states?
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
18-5973 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…
18-5956 James E. Whitney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence patent search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t…
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…
18-5885 Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence heroin-quantity motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence title-iii-wiretap verdict-acquittal Did the trial court err in denying the Petitioner's Motion for Verdict of Acquittal and for New Trial, because the evidence taken in the light most fa…
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?
18-5848 Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas Texas 2018-08-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth and Eighth Amendments were violated
18-5824 James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-5831 Willie Riley Curry v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation Does Carpenter and Byrd require a GVR in this case?
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
18-5715 Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse Did this Court's decision in Samson v. California overturn the 'stalking horse' doctrine?
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?
18-5690 Darren Taylor v. Thomas Schweitzer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gps-data search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity to litigate his claim of being denied his constitutional right t…
18-209 Ram Mehta v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Relisted (2) Civil-Procedure Civil-Rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-review search-and-seizure unlawful-arrest unlawful-search Unlawful-Search-and-Seizure Were the Petitioner's constitutional rights to be free from unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and to due process under the Fourte…
18-5630 Hunter Vaughan Eure v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity-requirement remote-computer-searches remote-search search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-particularity Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without…
18-5633 Michael A. Kennedy v. Michigan State Treasurer Michigan 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence index list-of-parties privacy question-presented reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
18-5613 Ladina Sykes v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police …
18-5584 Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity
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…
18-5526 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?
18-5508 Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without…
18-5509 Randy David Makell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment curtilage drug-dog drug-dog-search florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment home-search jardines-standard katz-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Does the use of a trained drug dog to sniff the doorway of a residence violate the resident's reasonable expectation of privacy?
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?
18-5432 Ahmadou Sankara v. Liam O'Hara, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure unlawful-search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, and false imprisonment without consent…
18-5440 Larenzo Lomax v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied IFP arrest arrest-legality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether Lomax was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to challenge the legality of Lomax's arrest
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
18-5389 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…
18-5365 Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether firefighters and police can unreasonably withhold sustenance and emergency aid to companion dogs after a fire was extinguished, to conduct an …
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's interpretation of a Kansas traffic statute governing the failu…
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…
18-99 Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was 'unreasonable' under the Fourth Amendment?
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
18-5279 Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant was grossly negligent, thereby precluding application of good-faith exception
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?
18-80 Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence
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
18-5102 Scooter L. Robinson v. Frank Shaw, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t…
18-13 Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas Texas 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop, where reasonable suspicion did…
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F…
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