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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7241 Michael Rech v. United States Second Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP body-worn-camera incarceration restitution right-to-counsel speedy-trial suppression Was petitioner deprived of his right to counsel of choice due to lack of timely notice and out-of-state incarceration, and should suppression have bee…
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?
23-5274 Wicahpe George Milk v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1503 attorney-client-privilege constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dismissal indian-reservation jurisdiction statutory-interpretation suppression Whether acts occurring on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation deprived the Court of jurisdiction over all parts of the indictment
23-36 Liam C. Lattin v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-12 Denied Response Waived case-by-case case-by-case-analysis categorical deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment social-cost suppression Whether the social cost of suppression is determined on a case-by-case basis or has been resolved categorically by this Court's Fourth Amendment juris…
23-5013 Brian Jury v. Ohio Ohio 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP brady brady-violation civil-rule-60b due-process evidence evidence-suppression indigent-defendant new-trial new-trial-motion possession suppression Whether a Brady violation requires suppression to be dependent upon possession
22-7217 Antoine Bryant, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant search-and-seizure suppression warrant-requirements Whether a no-knock search warrant issued, without any evidence of an exigent circumstance, should result in the evidence being suppressed under the Fo…
22-6798 Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression Whether a defendant must show inability to discover favorable evidence through due diligence to establish 'suppression' under Brady v. Maryland
22-85 Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris Oregon 2022-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegation?
21-391 Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response Waived circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, it inte…
21-5379 Jerome Mack v. New York New York 2021-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment probable-cause suppression warrant warrantless-search Does expressing a finding of probable cause in a court order authorizing the acquisition of cell site information effectively make the court order a w…
20-5137 Antoine Dewayne Myles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias pre-sentencing pro-se-representation self-representation suppression suppression-of-evidence wire-tap-interception Whether the district court violated the defendants Due Process right to a fair in an impartial tribunal
20-5048 Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to threats by police?
19-8754 Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the distri…
19-1374 Arturo Fernando Shaw Gutierrez v. California California 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (3) electronic-communications electronic-privacy exceptions-to-warrantless-searches fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protection-electronic-communicati law-enforcement-search miller-doctrine privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy stored-communications-act suppression warrant-requirement warrantless-searches Does the Fourth Amendment protect individuals who send or receive stored electronic communications (emails) as provided under federal law through the …
19-7847 Lee D. Watts v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-suppression criminal-interrogation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance police-interrogation police-questioning right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression voluntariness Whether petitioner's original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6
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…
19-7128 Mojisola Popoola v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment digital-evidence encrypted-devices encryption fifth-amendment miranda-warnings police-custody search-and-seizure self-incrimination standing suppression testimonial-conduct testimonial-evidence Whether the physical act of a person in police custody responding to a request to enter her passcode to unlock an encrypted cellphone is testimonial c…
19-6887 In Re Brad K. Edmonds 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless GPS tracking of a vehicle, and whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision …
19-6841 Adam Scott v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delayed-sealing evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment sealing statutory-compliance suppression surveillance-law title-iii title-iii-intercept unforeseen-emergency wiretap wiretap-procedure wiretap-suppression Should a wiretap that was not sealed until 30 days after interception ended, and 21 days after the order expired, be suppressed where that delay was n…
18-8971 William T. Liepe v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl…
18-8307 Dockery Cleveland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info…
18-8218 Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v…
18-7150 Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later inco…
18-5676 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-records cell-phone-tower-records constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duress-defense fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing suppression trial-counsel unqualified-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-5279 Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant was grossly negligent, thereby precluding application of good-faith exception