unlawful-arrest

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7512 In Re Walter Drummond 2025-06-26 Dismissed Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression miranda-rights unlawful-arrest Did the Florida Supreme Court err in denying the respondent's motion to suppress evidence due to an unlawful arrest and Miranda rights violation?
23-6468 Omar A. Rahman v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence pennsylvania-superior-court right-to-counsel right-to-defense search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unlawful-arrest witness-testimony Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision conflicts with the decisions of the United States Court of Appeals and other Pennsylvania Superior …
23-6327 Noel Garcia v. Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied IFP absolute-immunity civil-rights constitutional-restrictions due-process false-arrest freedom-of-movement judicial-proceeding probable-cause unlawful-arrest Did the United States District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit of Pennsylvania err in determining defendants are entitled to abso…
23-37 Kyle Cardenas v. Josiah Saladen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 unlawful-arrest Regularizing qualified immunity
22-7639 Hulon Verser v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review gang-related-crime ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings murder-conviction newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-rules-and-laws unlawful-arrest witness-credibility Whether the post-conviction court erred in denying the petitioner's post-conviction petition after an evidentiary hearing, where the newly discovered …
21-8115 Latoya Nicole Carter v. Virginia Virginia 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement search-and-seizure trespass unlawful-arrest use-of-force Whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a law enforcement officer from trespassing into a resident's home by shoving his foot into the doorway through th…
21-7281 Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process police-misconduct probable-cause unlawful-arrest Whether police violated the Fourth Amendment by arresting the petitioner without probable cause
20-636 Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle him …
19-8699 Jeremy P. Spencer v. Lieutenant Minter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the use of excessive force and unlawful arrest by law enforcement officers
19-5736 Khalida Jalaly Ahadzadah v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County California 2019-08-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct police-misconduct standing unlawful-arrest Whether the Concord Police Dept. violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by not providing proof of the alleged violations
18-9535 Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that …
18-7221 Kevin Abdul Gilbert v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 assault-and-battery circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-litigation constitutional-claims constitutional-grounds due-process heck-doctrine section-1983 unlawful-arrest unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit of Appeals erred in affirming the Western U.S. District Court's ruling barring the Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. §1983 claims
18-209 Ram Mehta v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Relisted (2) Civil-Procedure Civil-Rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-review search-and-seizure unlawful-arrest unlawful-search Unlawful-Search-and-Seizure Were the Petitioner's constitutional rights to be free from unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and to due process under the Fourte…