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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6752 | Jerome Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure digital-privacy electronic-device fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant | Does a search warrant need to allege specific facts about a defendant's electronic device and his use of that device--and not merely allege facts abou… |
| 25-6694 | Donny Ray Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant | 1. Whether the "materiality " prong of Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), is satisfied when a search warrant affidavit recklessly omits a confid… |
| 25-869 | James T. Weiss v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response Waived | custodial-interrogation detention-scope due-process law-enforcement-authority miranda-warnings search-warrant | In Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692, 704–05 (1981), this Court held that pursuant to a lawfully executed search warrant, officers have a limited auth… |
| 25-6548 | Nathan Cooper v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | This case presents an issue identical to that in Case v. Montana, No. 24-624, currently before this Court, i.e., whether law enforcement may enter a h… |
| 25-797 | Steven J. Hecke v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant | 1. Whether, and how, Franks applies to material information that is omitted from a search warrant affidavit. 2. Whether omissions from a search warra… |
| 25-800 | Matthew Scott Rocco v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | bailey-precedent fourth-amendment geographical-restriction law-enforcement probation-officer search-warrant | Does it violate the Fourth Amendment when, during the execution of a residential search warrant, law enforcement subverts the geographical restriction… |
| 25-6366 | Jarrett Howard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure fentanyl heroin probable-cause search-warrant | I. Did probable cause exist to issue a search warrant when the affidavit for the warrant did not say when the confidential informant saw heroin and fe… |
| 25-6310 | Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | I. In United States v. Leon, this Court announced a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. 468 U.S. 897, 922-23 (1984). "[T]he marginal or non… |
| 25-6265 | Rodney Hamilton Higgins, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more than a defendant's status as a drug dealer and residential address to establish probable cause for a sea… |
| 25-6057 | Katrina Lawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-seizure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant unreasonable-search warrantless-search | 1. Whether the i warrantless seizure of a cell phone from a private closet during a lawful arrest, without either a warrant, or the owner's consent … |
| 25-5977 | Dwayne Ernest Wharton v. Texas | Texas | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment gps-tracking search-warrant third-party-doctrine | Does a violation of the Fourth Amendment, as enunciated in this Court's holdings in Carpenter v. United States, 138 U.S. 2206 (2018) and United States… |
| 25-5939 | Michael Georgie Carson v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-10-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | DOES THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT'S DECISION CONFLICT WITH THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S CASELAW, WHEN THEY OVERTURNED THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS FINDING … |
| 25-5919 | Kevin Griffin v. New York | New York | 2025-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment search-warrant | 1. Did the State Courts error by denying Petitioner 's Fourteenth Amendment 's Due process rights by the State's knowing use of false testimony and th… |
| 25-454 | Ismael Bimbow v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry | 1. Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apart… |
| 25A293 | Martin Renteria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | arrest-warrant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial and appellate counsel failed to challenge potentially unc… | |
| 25-5468 | Robert A. Moylan v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-communications criminal-investigation fourth-amendment overbroad-seizure patient-privacy search-warrant | (1) Whether the investigation of misconduct by a substance abuse counselor justifies the search warrant seizure of all of the counselor's patient file… |
| 25-5431 | Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance | Under the Fourth Amendment, is there a sufficient nexus to support probable cause to search a citizen's house when a drug dealer briefly parks near th… |
| 25-5453 | George T. Rodgers, aka Gary Adams, aka Jeffrey Reid, aka Jim Johnson v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | body-worn-camera exculpatory-evidence grand-jury identification-error perjury search-warrant | 1. Detective Josh Pavlov of the Bordentown Township Police Dept, applied for and obtained a search warrant for the home of the defendant's father unde… |
| 25-5413 | Raymond Ronald Jennings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment good-faith-exception informant-credibility probable-cause reckless-disregard search-warrant | Did the officer omit from his probable cause affidavit information concerning the two informant's credibility that could infer reckless disregard for … |
| 25-5406 | Malgum Whiteside, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | I. Mr. Whiteside moved to suppress the evidence related to the firearms because the affidavit did not establish a nexus. Did the district court improp… |
| 25-5393 | Ross Farca v. California | California | 2025-08-18 | Denied | IFP | assault-weapon constitutional-challenge due-process mens-rea search-warrant second-amendment | I. Is California's Assault Weapon Control Act: §30605, §30600, §30800 & §30950 constitutional, especially when Prosecution "Firearm Expert" conceded t… |
| 25-5330 | Raymond Dugan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-protections fourth-circuit joint-venture law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the "Joint-Venture " doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections? 2. Should t… |
| 25A105 | Ismael Bimbow v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-25 | Presumed Complete | due-process evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through a warrantless search lacking exigent circumstances and potentially b… | |
| 25-5173 | Douglas Dean Welsh v. Bobbi Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance search-warrant | A. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERROR IN RULING THAT PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION WAS… |
| 25A55 | Dawn Eagle Feather Floyd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Presumed Complete | drug-offenses fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing suppression-motion | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on independent probable cause derived from the… | |
| 25-5047 | Michael Francis v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment informant-reliability judicial-integrity law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-warrant | Were Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when an FBI Agent, acting on information from an informant, obtained a search warrant for Petitione… |
| 24-7383 | In Re Robert Timothy Blake | 2025-06-09 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant | Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated by ineffective assistance of counsel, improper search warrants, withheld discovery, and po… | |
| 24-1152 | Gregory Garcia v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit criminal-defendant franks-hearing government-agent legal-defenses search-warrant | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a Franks hearing when he presents specific and concrete evidence that the government agent who presented t… |
| 24-6790 | Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied the good faith exception to a search warrant that allegedly lacked probable cause and nexus |
| 24-988 | Jorge Vasquez v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. | California | 2025-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Can law enforcement's failure to state any facts to establish probable cause be excused as 'good faith' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 24-6637 | Roger Moss v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Does probable cause to believe a person is engaged in drug trafficking per se establish probable cause to search their home? If not, is the affiant's … |
| 24-863 | Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2025-02-12 | Denied | fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops | |
| 24-851 | Paul S. Osterman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit-challenge franks-challenge law-enforcement-procedure omissions probable-cause search-warrant | In the context of a Franks challenge, when evaluating whether an alleged omission was necessary to a finding of probable cause, may a court supplement… |
| 24-6423 | Davonte Laron Chaney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment materiality probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a search warrant affidavit establishes probable cause when the affiant made materially false statements |
| 24-798 | Kay E. Anderson v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2025-01-27 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction evidence-suppression fraudulent-misrepresentation search-warrant state-statute | Whether a party can be convicted of a crime based upon evidence obtained under a search warrant that was declared invalid because it was procured by f… |
| 24-6295 | Rashawn Tyriq Perkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone fourth-amendment location-data particularity-requirement reasonable-reliance search-warrant | Whether the court of appeals correctly determined that a search warrant for collection of real time location data from Petitioner's cell device over a… |
| 24-6259 | Kenneth Wayne Gilmore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Whether the isolated smell of marijuana is sufficient probable cause for a search warrant; Whether Petitioner's conviction should be reversed due to a… |
| 24A648 | Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-12-31 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge extraterritorial-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits extraterritorial GPS tracking by state law enforcement without explicit statutory authorization or judicial warra… | |
| 24-6201 | Christopher Jeorge Millican v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay search-warrant sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether the Confrontation Clause allows the admission of testimonial documents created in response to a search warrant without direct confrontation of… |
| 24-681 | Konstadin Bitzas v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process emergency-caretaker fourth-amendment pro-se-representation probable-cause search-warrant | Whether defects in a search warrant application process, including failure to satisfy the oath requirement, omitting key facts about witnesses' intoxi… |
| 24-624 | William Trevor Case v. Montana | Montana | 2024-12-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (18)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances home-search law-enforcement-entry probable-cause search-warrant | Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the eme… |
| 24-6067 | Jerrelle Quintrez Gladden v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense fifth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment-right witness-exclusion | May a district court exclude a defense witness when he will invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to certain questions but undisputedly will answer a… |
| 24-5978 | In Re Marquis Deron Heard | 2024-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion federal-prisoner mandamus-relief pro-se-petition search-warrant sixth-circuit | Whether a federal prisoner's multiple appeals of a 2255 motion and unresolved search warrant issues constitute grounds for mandamus relief | |
| 24-519 | Eunice Bisong Nkongho v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | border-search criminal-investigation electronic-media fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-warrant | Whether the border exception to the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless seizure and search of electronic media for criminal investigation purposes, an… |
| 24-5864 | Antwone Miguel Sanders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fourth-amendment leon-exception nexus probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the search warrant affidavit failed to establish the requisite nexus for searching a private residence and whether the Leon good-faith excepti… |
| 24-473 | Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (4) | circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant | Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr… |
| 24-5801 | In Re Frank Edwin Pate | 2024-10-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure search-warrant | Can lower courts delay and deny access to Habeas Corpus while maintaining Constitutional adherence? | |
| 24-5773 | Sedric Q. Sutton v. Charlton Smith, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation drug-possession fourth-amendment illegal-seizure search-warrant summary-judgment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in granting summary judgment denying damages for illegal search and seizure when Sutton allegedly failed to create a g… |
| 24-5757 | Damian Cortez v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a circuit split exists regarding the standard for presenting an offer of proof under Franks v. Delaware and the Fourth Amendment requirements … |
| 24-5761 | Jamie Christopher Henderson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | corroboration criminal-charge drug-trafficking-conspiracy independent-evidence law-enforcement-statement search-warrant | Did the Government prove a drug trafficking conspiracy where the evidence the Government offered to corroborate the defendant's statement to law enfor… |
| 24-5513 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith franks-hearing good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant | May a search warrant affiant be excused under the Good Faith Exception when intentionally withholding critical information about prior state court sup… |
| 24-5335 | Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Darosa conflicts with other Circuit Courts' precedents regarding the admissibility of finger… |
| 24-5278 | Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fifth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-incrimination sentencing-hearing | Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination was violated by drawing an adverse inference from silence at a sentencing h… |
| 24-5220 | Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether prejudicial joinder of unrelated counts violates the right to a fair trial, |
| 24A74 | Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G.W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | discretionary-function federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-warrant supremacy-clause | Whether the Supremacy Clause and the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act can immunize federal law enforcement from liabili… | |
| 24A55 | Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-17 | Presumed Complete | clearly-established-law fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-efforts search-warrant wrong-house-raid | Whether an officer violates clearly established Fourth Amendment law when executing a search warrant at the wrong residence without taking reasonable … | |
| 24-5092 | Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | IFP | digital-privacy facebook-data fourth-amendment government-scrutiny probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant social-media temporal-limitation warrant | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent 'all-data' warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation or for a period … |
| 24-5074 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression | Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule? |
| 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… |
| 23-7831 | 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, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights | |
| 23-7834 | Willie Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant unlawful-detention | Whether the officers had probable cause for the stop, whether there was a search warrant for the car, whether there was sufficient evidence to support… |
| 23-1343 | Darwin Quinones-Pimentel, et al. v. Nicholas W. Cannon, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-tort federal-agents fourth-amendment frank-v-delaware monetary-damages search-warrant | Whether a Bivens action can be maintained against federal agents and actors when a search warrant is obtained in violation of the doctrine established… |
| 23-7751 | Montel Westley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit civil-procedure-4th-amendment-search-warrant-affid due-process perjury protective-sweep search-warrant warrant-execution | Question not identified |
| 23-1311 | Charles W. Washington v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-06-14 | Denied | affidavit drug-activity fourth-amendment oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant sgro-precedent time-delay warrant-application | Whether the mandates announced in Sgro v. United States were violated in the issuance of the search warrant | |
| 23-7713 | Calvin K. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule false-statements fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware judicial-integrity law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that was based in part on false stat… |
| 23-1255 | Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate of … | |
| 23A1041 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception material-misrepresentation probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the Exclusionary Rule under U.S. v. Leon impermissibly erodes Fourth Amendment protections when applied to search … | |
| 23-7416 | Christopher J. Pratt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review | Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), when … |
| 23-7321 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-defect warrant-requirement | Whether the good-faith exception applies to save evidence obtained through an unconstitutional warrant because, hypothetically, if the magistrate had … |
| 23-7215 | David Hueston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege evidentiary-weight fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware officer-affiant probable-cause prosecutorial-consultation prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether a reviewing court may place substantial evidentiary weight on an officer-affiant's consultation with a prosecuting attorney before seeking and… |
| 23-7134 | 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 | Whether a magistrate can rely on information not provided in the affidavit when determining if there is a substantial basis to issue a warrant |
| 23-7087 | Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2024-03-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief due to introduction of evidence from a warrantless… |
| 23-6990 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Does the Fourth Amendment permit the issuance of a search warrant for a cell phone absent case-specific facts connecting the alleged crime and the pho… |
| 23A831 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement | Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine under the Fourth Amendment permits suppression of evidence to be excused based on a hypothetical warrant tha… | |
| 23-6742 | Alexander D. Pennington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant | Is a suspect in a criminal investigation 'in custody' when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke down his door to execute a sea… |
| 23-6609 | Kevin McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cloud-search electronic-media exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule can save a cloud search warrant unsupported by probable cause and devoid of particularity |
| 23A655 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Presumed Complete | cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that lacks probable cause and particularity, despite t… | |
| 23-6430 | Nicholas Dwayne Jones v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-warrant truthfulness | Does a defendant in a criminal proceeding still retain the right under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to challenge the truthfulness of statements… |
| 23A612 | Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference | |
| 23-6158 | Derrick Hunt v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's motion to suppress the search of his computer? |
| 23-6032 | 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 |
| 23-6006 | Delando Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-exception nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause residential-search search-warrant | Whether an application for a warrant to search a home for drugs must contain objective evidence of a nexus between the evidence sought and the residen… |
| 23A360 | Michael S. Barth v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-intervention first-amendment judicial-records public-access search-warrant special-counsel | Whether the First Amendment and common law right of public access requires judicial review of search warrant proceedings involving a former president'… | |
| 23-5827 | Keiron K. Sneed v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | contents-of-mind digital-privacy fifth-amendment fisher-v-united-states foregone-conclusion passcode passcode-compulsion search-warrant self-incrimination | Can the foregone conclusion rationale be used to compel an individual to enter a passcode into a personally held cellular phone? |
| 23-5718 | Adam Neftali Santana v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing | Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant? |
| 23-5696 | Elvins Sylvestre v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment controlled-purchases informant-reliability law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant warrant-sufficiency | Was there sufficient probable cause for the issuance of the search warrant where law enforcement officers failed to fully supervise a series of contro… |
| 23-5490 | Franklin Paul Eller, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search-warrant severance-doctrine warrant-overbreadth | Is severance of any overbroad warrant a permissible exception to the exclusionary rule |
| 23A167 | Erik Carrasco v. Terry Henkell | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Presumed Complete | affidavit exculpatory-information fourth-amendment omission qualified-immunity search-warrant | Whether a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment by submitting an affidavit for a search warrant that omits material exculpatory inform… | |
| 23-5378 | Frank J. Capozzi v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation fourth-amendment franks-hearing fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause search-warrant | Was the State search warrant obtained based on fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, and omitted statements |
| 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… |
| 22-1121 | 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 |
| 22-7554 | Samuel Terraye Windom v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-buy drug-evidence fourth-amendment informant nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a controlled drug transaction that takes place away from a suspect's home is sufficient to establish a nexus between the offense and the suspe… |
| 22-1064 | Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Texas | Texas | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence stale-information | Whether the Texas courts' misapplication of this Court's precedent concerning 'stale' search warrants requires a remand for reconsideration of petitio… |
| 22-7401 | Brandon Quane Hudson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magisterial-review magistrate-review probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Leon good-faith exception applies to a search warrant that lacked sufficient probable cause to support a search |
| 22-7370 | Donte Lamont Dingle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rule-16 fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware franks-violation jencks-material probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision conflicts with prior decisions of this Court and another United States Court of Appeals, including its own, on t… |
| 22-7379 | Igor Grushko v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines | Whether the police entering a residence to execute a search warrant must possess probable cause that the person they are seeking is inside the residen… |
| 22-7340 | Damorius D. Gaines v. Geoffrey Benedict Eaton, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant | Did the South Carolina courts err in denying relief on petitioner's claims that his constitutional rights were violated? |
| 22-7264 | Corey Shamon McKinney v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware probable-cause search-warrant standing | Whether an illegal search and seizure took place |
| 22-7097 | 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 |
| 22-6813 | Joshua Glowacki v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights | Does the defendant in a criminal case have the right to have a jury determine facts to support a restitution order? |
| 22-6777 | 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 |
| 22-6671 | Rodney P. Mazzulla v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process franks-hearing Franks-v-Delaware ineffective-assistance reasonable-performance search-warrant Strickland-v-Washington | Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 22-6623 | Jarmell Raymond Mayweather v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-violation informant-falsification prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant | Whether the government omission of evidence that was contrast affiant's Search Warrant Application (SWA) statements constituted a Brady and Franks vio… |
| 22-640 | David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code | Is a search warrant that authorizes a search for violations of the entire federal tax code (26 U.S.C. §7201), plus any other numerous codes and laws f… |
| 22-6449 | Carl Anthony Wilson v. Texas | Texas | 2023-01-04 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence blood-draw conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant unreasonable-search-and-seizure | Whether the warrantless blood draw violated the Fourth Amendment |
| 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… |
| 22-6430 | Alex Bugno v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-12-30 | Denied | IFP | evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure | Are search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring suppre… |
| 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 … |
| 22-486 | Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin | Texas | 2022-11-22 | Denied | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements | Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc… | |
| 22-6058 | Justin David Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver | Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record constitutes structural error |
| 22-6014 | Herbert G. Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search independent-source-doctrine police-procedure search-warrant | Does the independent source doctrine permit the admission of evidence found during an illegal search of a home if police later obtained a search warra… |
| 22-5968 | Grant Manaku v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement rule-41 search-warrant warrant-service | Did the agents deliberately violate the federal rule of criminal procedure—Rule 41(f)(1)(C)—that requires agents to serve a warrant when that warrant … |
| 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… |
| 22-5863 | Arlandis Shy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instruction probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment unreasonable-search | Whether the district court clearly erred by failing to properly instruct the jury, in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, and by admitting Defendant … |
| 22-5774 | Dajuan L. Banks v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-10-05 | Denied | IFP | court-of-record evidence-forgery forged-document fourth-amendment judicial-record record res-judicata search-warrant | Are the rights protected under the Fourth Amendment offended where a search warrant affidavit and warrant were not entered on the record? |
| 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 … |
| 22-233 | Paul Chretien v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography fourth-amendment google-cloud probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence staleness | Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a finding of probable cause for a search warrant for child pornography in a private home based solely, and without… |
| 22-222 | Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 | Whether Franks authorizes federal courts to disregard a finding of probable cause made by a properly constituted state grand jury |
| 22-5508 | Hanford Chiu v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections |
| 22-5467 | Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant | Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk err in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its-face and then file it into the ap… |
| 22-5327 | Lavone Ganithus Dixon, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-procedure court-record due-process evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-warrant structural-error | Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on an unfiled state search warrant constitutes structural error |
| 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… |
| 22-5080 | Jacky Cardale Mayfield v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2022-07-12 | Denied | IFP | confidential-witness due-process Fourth-Amendment Fourth-Amendment-search In-camera-hearing ineffective-counsel Probable-cause search-warrant Shackling Witness-testimony | Fourth-Amendment,Fourth-Amendment-search,Probable-cause,Witness-testimony,In-camera-hearing,Shackling,Eyewitness-identification,Ineffective-assistance… |
| 22-5022 | Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity | When probable cause is based on a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establish the informant's reliability by the informa… |
| 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… |
| 21-7865 | Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant | Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level |
| 21-7812 | Delton Eugene Warren v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-signature original-public-meaning search-warrant starr-v-united-states warrant-clause | Whether search warrants must be signed by the issuing judicial officer |
| 21-7764 | Kelvin Jones v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-complaints fourth-amendment marijuana-evidence marijuana-use probable-cause search-warrant trash-pull | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of a home pursuant to a search warrant based solely on anonymous complaints of short-term traffic an… |
| 21-7753 | Levi Miller v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant | Whether the proper remedy for a Franks v. Delaware violation is to purge misleading statements or supplement the affidavit with omitted information |
| 21-7734 | Bruce Mitchell Nicholson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonableness search-warrant time-limit | Does a violation of a time-limit prescribed in a search warrant render a search unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 21-7699 | 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… |
| 21-7641 | Jose Diaz Perez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure intoxication-statements search-warrant | Did the State of Texas and the U.S. District Court improperly admit evidence obtained unconstitutionally? |
| 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… |
| 21-7344 | Edwin Calligan v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anticipatory-warrant contraband fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-warrant triggering-event | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with United States v. Grubbs |
| 21-7277 | 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… |
| 21-7104 | Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing | Did the court err in its HECK BARR determination? |
| 21-6788 | 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 |
| 21-6761 | Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment mlat mlat-evidence search-warrant sixth-amendment | Whether this Court should visit the issue of allowing law enforcement to gather information initiated by the United States to use a Mutual Legal Assis… |
| 21-947 | Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment | Franks-v-Delaware-violation |
| 21-6726 | 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 |
| 21-6682 | Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether a reviewing court should ignore the Fourth Amendment analysis and go directly to a good faith analysis under United States v. Leon when an aff… |
| 21-6535 | 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 … |
| 21-6345 | Jeremy Schenck v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | benign-information evidence-description judicial-scrutiny legal-review paragraph-structure probable-cause scrutiny search-warrant vulgar-slang warrant-application | Whether allegations in a warrant application are entitled to lesser scrutiny when the district court concludes they are essential to the probable caus… |
| 21-6368 | Suzanne Elizabeth Wexler v. Texas | Texas | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-detention miranda miranda-custody police-authority search-warrant terry-stop | Whether Fourth Amendment reasonableness concerns have any bearing on a determination of custody under Miranda |
| 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… |
| 21-6360 | Qian Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-procedure factual-findings federal-court federal-custody federal-jurisdiction grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion search-warrant speedy-trial-act | Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court's decisions? |
| 21-6109 | Jackie Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-authority probable-cause reasons-for-granting search-warrant statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | when-lower-court-removes-waiver-and-assigns-counsel-for-appeal |
| 21-6000 | Marius A. Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointed-counsel criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant wanton-endangerment | Whether probable cause exists to issue a State search warrant to seize firearms, ammunition, and associated equipment, when the affidavit fails to all… |
| 21-6006 | Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant | Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate basis for probable cause? |
| 21-6016 | Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency | Whether a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the functional equivalent of a search warrant |
| 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… |
| 21-5544 | Thomas Charles Scott v. Stuart Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment | Were petitioner's rights under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments violated by trial counsel's failure to challenge a search warrant obtained via intentio… |
| 21-5519 | Steven P. BuBenchik, Jr. v. Douglas Fender, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance search-warrant standing warrantless-search | Whether the Constitution or laws require a trial court to fabricate facts outside sworn testimony to justify a warrantless entry |
| 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… |
| 21-5283 | 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… |
| 21-5228 | Dwayne Sheckles v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing evidence-seizure home-invasion probable-cause residential-searches search-warrant search-warrants | Whether a person's status as a suspected drug dealer, alone, provides probable cause to allow for a warrant to be issued for that person's residence |
| 21-5205 | Eddie Mendia v. Abby Harman, et al. | Kansas | 2021-07-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-liberties civil-rights due-process equal-protection geolocation-tracking privacy privacy-rights probable-cause racial-justice search-warrant virtual-trespass | Whether private citizens require probable cause and search warrants to obtain geolocation data, lacking these amounts to violating constitutional righ… |
| 21-5211 | 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… |
| 20-1766 | In Re John H. Todd | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant | Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants provide the same level of constitutional safeguards for suspects in a criminal investigation? | |
| 20-8352 | David Alexandre v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie… |
| 20-1737 | Luke Noel Wilson v. California | California | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | electronic-search email email-scanning fourth-amendment google law-enforcement private-search-doctrine search-warrant warrant-requirement | Does the private search doctrine place Google's automated electronic scan of all email on its system outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment fo… |
| 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… |
| 20-8122 | 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 |
| 20-8058 | Kenneth Rose v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit | Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 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 … |
| 20-7704 | Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant | Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant? |
| 20-7512 | Forrest R. Cox, III v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-statute fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine immutable-evidence independent-source-doctrine search-warrant | Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court erred in applying the good-faith doctrine to a search warrant executed after the federal statute and relevant case … |
| 20-7464 | Stephen D. Long v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing totality-of-the-circumstances | Can a search warrant issue for a private residence based solely on the uncorroborated statement of an anonymous citizen informant? |
| 20-7482 | Lavellous Purcell v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | IFP | electronic-data-privacy federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants internet-privacy interstate-commerce mann-act particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether a search warrant ordering Facebook to hand over the defendant's entire account to law enforcement for review, without limiting either Facebook… |
| 20-7318 | Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-03-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties | whether-state-disproved-self-defense-beyond-reasonable-doubt |
| 20-1189 | Brian E. Hardin v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant vehicle-search | Whether law-enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment by searching a person's vehicle when the person drives that vehicle up to his house whil… |
| 20-1181 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review | When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema… |
| 20-7095 | Gary S. Colldock v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dark-web drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant staleness | Whether the information in the application for the warrant to place the GPS device on Colldock's vehicle was 'stale' |
| 20-7078 | Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant | WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA… |
| 20-1053 | Ronald Dewayne Pitts v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit credibility-reliability due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny probable-cause search-warrant undisclosed-sources | Whether a Search Warrant Affidavit that failed to set forth probable cause can survive meaningful scrutiny |
| 20-6889 | Gregory Bartunek v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus internet-protocol overbreadth search-warrant standing vagueness | Whether the federal rules of criminal procedure are unconstitutionally overbroad and vague |
| 20-6813 | Manuel Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest | Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba… |
| 20-6733 | John Christopher Ferguson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies where law enforcement knew or should have known the affidavit would lead to a mistak… |
| 20-825 | Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 | Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi… | |
| 20-6475 | Samer Walid Abdalla v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment judicial-authorization law-enforcement neutral-magistrate particularity probable-cause residence search-warrant warrant-specificity | Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when officers executed a search warrant that authorized the search of a different residence in a different t… |
| 20-6480 | Maurice Freeman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment bailey-v-united-states detention fourth-amendment immediate-vicinity michigan-v-summers police-authority premises-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does the rule of Michigan v. Summers extend to individuals on a public street near the residence? |
| 20-6343 | 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… |
| 20-6103 | Curtis Lee Dale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing | Is a defendant entitled to copies of inventory documents related to executed search warrants connected to his criminal case? |
| 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? |
| 20-419 | Stephen Robert Deck v. California | California | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment attempt attempt-offense custodial-arrest due-process jury-instructions jury-unanimity right-to-counsel search-warrant temporal-element unanimity | Whether the temporal direct step element of an attempt offense may be changed by jury instructions |
| 20-5816 | Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver | Whether a new theory raised on appeal in support of a suppression motion is reviewable for plain error or under Rule 12's good-cause standard |
| 20-5776 | Joel Thomas Augard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution | Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit? |
| 20-5601 | 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? |
| 20-5571 | Angel C. Pacheco v. Maine | Maine | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | any-persons-present collective-searches criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrant-standard | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause that each person present will possess evidence of a crime, or only that the collective searches o… |
| 20-5494 | Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review | Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability… |
| 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? |
| 20-5339 | Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether the reviewing court must use the test set forth in United States v. Leon or the test set forth in Illinois v. Krull to determine if good faith… |
| 20-139 | Bryant Kazuyoshi Iwai v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anticipatory-search-warrant beeper controlled-delivery exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-perjury probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Ninth Circuit majority opinion has adopted a rule of exigent circumstances contrary to United States v. Grubbs and Kentucky v. King |
| 20-5303 | Lawrence A. Dibble v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-review law-enforcement magistrate oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a court may consider unrecorded, oral information provided to a magistrate when evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's belief in the ex… |
| 20-5285 | Melvin Lee Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Scope of search warrant based on marijuana odor |
| 19-8926 | Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review | Whether the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States applies to the search warrant for the defendant's home |
| 19-8913 | Wasfi Abbassi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | false-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant stale-information terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit's upholding of a search warrant based almost exclusively on false, misleading and stale information violated the Fourth Amen… |
| 19-1454 | Naray Palaniappan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | computer-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-particularity-requirement good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation particularity-requirement search-warrant warrant-application warrant-incorporation | Where a warrant application requested authorization to search computers 'wherever located' but the warrant itself omitted that language, can governmen… |
| 19-8651 | Kevin Remillard v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-06-10 | Denied | IFP | fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress personal-papers probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search welfare-check | Does the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment require a search warrant or probable cause to seize and search personal papers during a welfare check? |
| 19-8629 | Carpeah R. Nyenekor, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-falsification double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process false-affidavit prosecutorial-misconduct res-judicata search-warrant | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the federal government from re-indicting a defendant after a state court has dismissed the charges based … |
| 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… |
| 19-8418 | Rupert Stamps v. Detective Paris Capalupo, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | IFP | affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing | Did the Lower Court err or abuse its discretion when ruling that Officer Rollins did not violate Appellant's rights under the Fourth Amendment to be f… |
| 19-1254 | Pennsylvania v. Joseph J. Davis | Pennsylvania | 2020-04-29 | Denied | Amici (1) | 5th-amendment civil-rights electronic-devices encryption fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion search-warrant self-incrimination | Does the foregone conclusion exception to the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination apply to the compelled production of passwords to e… |
| 19-8273 | Deonday Evans v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause commerce-nexus criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federalism federalism-principles fourth-amendment search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing | Whether federalism principles require reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 to require a more meaningful commerce nexus |
| 19-8227 | Joshua Dwayne Carrier v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-04-09 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4-year-old-transaction 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant stale-information | Was the search warrant for Mr. Carrier's home and computers relying on a single transaction from four years earlier based upon stale information and l… |
| 19-8204 | Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation | Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague residual clause? |
| 19-8104 | Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment | Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify se… |
| 19-8069 | Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const… |
| 19-8025 | 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 |
| 19-7983 | 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… |
| 19-1055 | Dustin Moss v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number | Whether the search of a package that was solely referenced by its tracking number in the warrant's caption, but was not otherwise described in the war… |
| 19-1021 | 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 |
| 19-1027 | David Caswell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant | Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate… |
| 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… |
| 19-7581 | James Ryan Taylor and Steven Vincent Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geographic-scope good-faith-exception misrepresentation search-warrant | Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to evidence seized under an invalid warrant if agents knowingly misrepresented the fact t… |
| 19-7282 | John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest | Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in upholding petitioner's warrantless arrest? |
| 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… |
| 19-7173 | Kenneth Rose v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression | Whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exception, which would have not permitte… |
| 19-7139 | Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation | Whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process clause |
| 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… |
| 19-7006 | Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additional force, can properly meet the elements of an Armed Career Criminal Act predic… |
| 19-6816 | Michael J. Warner, II v. Maine | Maine | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit burglary cell-phone-data criminal-evidence nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | Whether an affidavit in support of a search warrant that contains neither specific allegations that a burglary suspect's cell phone data contain evide… |
| 19-6766 | Miles Barton Nichols v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant | Whether a finding of recklessness should be inferred where omissions are critical to probable cause |
| 19-6753 | Benitez Auguarius Moody v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-challenge deliberate-falsehood due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware intentional-falsehoods intentional-falsity probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the characterization of deliberate falsehoods in a search warrant affidavit as mere imprecision eviscerates the right of a defendant as enunci… |
| 19-6491 | Matthew Shaffer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing | Whether the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing and suppress evidence obtained under a search warrant |
| 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… | |
| 19-513 | Aivaras Mardosas v. Florida | Florida | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response Waived | bare-bones-affidavit collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant suppression-of-evidence | Whether the 'fellow officer rule' can justify a search warrant with flawed probable cause |
| 19-6267 | 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… |
| 19-6241 | Elfred William Petruk v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant confidential-informants drug-evidence eighth-circuit fourth-amendment gps-tracking gps-tracking-warrants illinois-v-gates probable-cause search-warrant stale-information | Did the Eighth Circuit erroneously rule, in conflict with this Court's decision in Illinois v. Gates, that the search warrant for a Chrysler vehicle a… |
| 19-6187 | Jon Kaiser v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affiant-misconduct affidavit child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review lascivious-exhibition magistrate-judge probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether an intentional or reckless omission of purported child pornography images from a search warrant application undermines a finding of probable c… |
| 19-6095 | Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement | Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva… |
| 19-5883 | Richard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity | Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a 'Substantial Preliminary Showing' That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing in … |
| 19-5782 | Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory | Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole and … |
| 19-5795 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when an affidavit supporting a search warrant had been tainted by evidence obtained … |
| 19-5701 | Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida | Florida | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review child-abuse child-pornography child-sexual-performance constitutional-rights due-process falsified-transcripts motion-to-suppress search-warrant | Whether the petitioner's conviction for violating Florida Statute 827.071 (5) (a) is illegal due to lack of evidence, falsified transcripts, and viola… |
| 19-5676 | Jerel Leon Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment giglio-impeachment giglio-v-united-states good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | Whether a district court may consider evidence outside the warrant affidavit in determining good-faith exception |
| 19-188 | Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton | Whether the allegations establish a Fourth Amendment violation and qualified immunity defense | |
| 19-5546 | Kevin Lyndell Yates v. Amy M. Harper | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights consent-to-search constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation inventory-of-seized-items miranda-warnings plea-agreement police-questioning search-warrant | Does a defendant have a constitutional right to be read Miranda warnings? |
| 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… |
| 19-5474 | Terry Lee Carlson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope | Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals disregard plain and unambiguous language in the search warrant limiting searches to the computers located in t… |
| 19-5414 | Arthur Whitley v. Texas | Texas | 2019-07-31 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent | Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel… |
| 19-5357 | Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction | When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t… |
| 19-5339 | James Kenneth Ganzer, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-authority magistrate-judge search-warrant void-ab-initio | Can the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that was void ab initio, and therefore without lega… |
| 19-5035 | Calvin James v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trial witness | Do officers need consent to search private property without a search warrant? |
| 18-9775 | 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 |
| 18-9565 | 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 |
| 18-9422 | 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… |
| 18-9305 | Joshua Chapman-Sexton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the inevitable discovery exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 18-9259 | Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit | May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning? |
| 18-9082 | Arion D. Andrews v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-investigation evidence-sufficiency fourth-amendment independent-evidence judicial-review police-investigation probable-cause residence search-warrant | Can a search warrant properly issue under the Fourth Amendment when the police-officer-affiant states that the address to be searched is the residence… |
| 18-9050 | 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… |
| 18-8873 | Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental | Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th… |
| 18-8811 | 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… |
| 18-8783 | 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,… |
| 18-8694 | Bryan Gilbert Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception law-enforcement search-warrant systemic-misconduct systemic-mistake united-states-v-leon | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule of United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) applies when law enforcement makes an obvious,… |
| 18-8665 | Michael Benanti v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the place t… |
| 18-8668 | Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-04-02 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law | Was COA17-1134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? |
| 18-1252 | Rev. Barry D. Bilder v. Rev. Beth Mathers, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | civil-rights dna dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights reasonableness right-to-counsel search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment | Is a Search Warrant (for DNA) reasonable under the Fourth (4th) Amendment? | |
| 18-8593 | Dontae Callen v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit | Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, can a reviewing court consider information from … |
| 18-8597 | Barbara E. Brown v. Scott Burton, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice search-warrant standing state-court-liability trespassing unreasonable-search-and-seizure | Whether District Court Judge Cormac Carey obstructed justice under the definition of 18 U.S.C. 1503 when he refused Petitioner Counsel? |
| 18-8487 | Kevin Neysmith v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-03-22 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-content criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fruits-of-the-poisonous-tree o-connell-warnings o'connell-warnings search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits State judicial systems from admitting evidence of blood alcohol content obtained without a search warrant |
| 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? |
| 18-1230 | 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 … | |
| 18-8500 | Nickey Ardd v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement | Question not identified |
| 18-8448 | Edward Bishop v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-1066 | Tracy Chang and Howard Hsu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense good-faith-reliance jury-instructions search-warrant standing tax-fraud | Whether a court must instruct the jury on a criminal defendant's good-faith reliance on professional tax advice as a defense, the scope of discretion … |
| 18-7914 | Jay Maurice Tharps v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-informant drug-trafficking fourth-amendment leon-exception leon-good-faith-exception partially-rotten-fruit probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in determining that probable cause existed |
| 18-7846 | Reginald Hough v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances | Was there probable cause for the search warrant? |
| 18-1007 | 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 |
| 18-954 | 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 … |
| 18-863 | Tralvis Edmond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence | Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch… |
| 18-7095 | 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… |
| 18-746 | County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search | Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa… | |
| 18-6903 | Curtis McLaurin v. New York | New York | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell | Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application |
| 18-6820 | Robert Paul Langley, Jr. v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-authorization particularity particularity-requirement search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment | Does the Fourth Amendment require that a search warrant particularly describe the things to be seized? |
| 18-623 | Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit | May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha… |
| 18-6702 | 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 |
| 18-6531 | Tyler G. Eppes v. United States | Armed Forces | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process evidence evidence-suppression inevitable-discovery military-magistrate personal-bags scope-of-search scrivener's-error search-authorization search-warrant serivener's-error | Was this an error? |
| 18-6485 | Richard Elliott Cain v. Washington | Washington | 2018-10-29 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions propensity-evidence search-warrant | Whether the trial court erred in failing to give the jury a limiting instruction after permitting character and propensity evidence |
| 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 |
| 18-350 | 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 |
| 18-325 | Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver | Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted… |
| 18-285 | 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… |
| 18-5705 | George Easterly v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea | Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent |
| 18-5718 | James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review | Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court? |
| 18-5587 | 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… |
| 18-5536 | Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants | When is a search of a cell phone conducted for the purposes of a search warrant following Riley v. California? |
| 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 |
| 18-5414 | Keith William Deichert v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio | Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant… |
| 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… |
| 18-5368 | Gabriel Werdene v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity | Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd… |
| 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… |
| 18-5306 | Ramiah Jefferson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | cell-phone cell-phone-search fourth-amendment gang-activity probable-cause riley-v-california search-warrant zurcher-v-stanford-daily | Whether an application for a search warrant to examine the contents of a cell phone seized incident to an arrest must show more to establish probable … |
| 18-5023 | Glenn Edwards v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause search-warrant staleness standing takings | Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence used to obtain a search warrant, violating the pe… |