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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6207 | Mark Eugene Benton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights effective-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment vehicle-search | 1) Was the search of the petitioners vehicle, on 12-31-2020, lawful under the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as Montana Cnst… |
| 25-5990 | Tylee Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | detention fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-search | 1. Whether a passenger in a vehicle, who briefly leaves the vehicle during a police encounter, but is contemporaneously detained with the vehicle and … |
| 25-5010 | Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search | Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), and does the Fifth C… |
| 24-7488 | Richard W. Kelley v. Maine | Maine | 2025-06-24 | Denied | IFP | fourth-amendment government-surveillance gps-tracking personal-property privacy-interest vehicle-search | Does a regular passenger in a vehicle being GPS tracked by the Government have a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in his movements and the vehicle, w… |
| 24-7160 | Prentiss Jackson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights federal-law fourth-amendment marijuana-search state-law vehicle-search | Whether it is constitutional to search a vehicle for the odor of marijuana alone in a state that has legalized marijuana, whether Illinois odorless co… |
| 24-1093 | Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa | Iowa | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | dog-sniff fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether a dog sniff of the interior of a lawfully stopped vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment absent consent to the sniff or probable cause to belie… |
| 24-6978 | Adam Douglas Sherwood v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause terry-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a police officer's stop of a white Silverado pickup truck 35 minutes after a gunshots-fired incident, based on a dispatch alert, constitutes a… |
| 24-6715 | Robert Keshaun Turner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-belief search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-exception | Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of the vehicle search incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement resolved the meaning of 'reason… |
| 24-6593 | Juan Guerrero v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review fourth-amendment officer-safety protective-sweep suppression-ruling vehicle-search | Whether the First Circuit erred in reversing the District Court's suppression ruling by holding that an officer's actual fear for their safety is not … |
| 24-863 | 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 | |
| 24-6024 | Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on the aut… |
| 24-535 | Gregory Rogers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Denied | criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether a passenger in a borrowed, lawfully parked vehicle retains a Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy when making truthful statements to law en… | |
| 24-5755 | Wesley Perkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | methamphetamine-evidence motion-to-suppress park-ranger probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the District Court erred by denying Perkins' motion to suppress evidence discovered during a warrantless search of his vehicle on the beach |
| 24A238 | Gregory Rogers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a passenger in a borrowed vehicle who has the owner's permission to use the car retains a Fourth Amendment privacy interest even when not driv… | |
| 23-7102 | Jeremy Lee Koons v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless placement of a GPS tracking device on a vehicle and the subsequent warrantless search of that vehicle violates the Fourth Amen… |
| 23-6957 | Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cannabis-odor exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-scope vehicle-search warrantless-search | Does dismantling the vehicle interior exceed the scope of a warrantless search based on the odor of burnt cannabis? |
| 23-6897 | Pedro Armando Nava v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure industrial-hemp marijuana-odor medical-marijuana odor-of-marijuana probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search based on marijuana odor in a state with legal medical marijuana and hemp |
| 23-6550 | Xavier Howell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-trafficking fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio vehicle-search vehicle-stop warrantless-search warrantless-stop | Whether a Warrantless Stop of a Vehicle, Based Solely on Proximity to a Motel Known for Drug Trafficking, in the Absence of any Actual Violation of th… |
| 23-5903 | Nathan Russell Cates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure dog-sniff drug-dog-alert fourth-amendment harris-v-florida motion-to-suppress probable-cause rule-16 vehicle-search | When the government attempts to establish probable cause to search a vehicle during a traffic stop by relying on a certified drug dog's alert, does Ha… |
| 23-5862 | Benancio Castaneda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility canine-sniff drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its rulings on the continued detention and canine search |
| 23-5743 | Xzavione Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-investigation exit-order fourth-amendment pennsylvania-v-mimms police-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether a police officer detours from the lawful mission of a traffic stop by ordering that the driver of a car exit the vehicle for the sole purpose … |
| 23-5473 | Arnez J. Salazar v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arizona-v-gant closed-container fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reaching-distance search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search incident to arrest when the arrestee is secured and not within reaching distance of a closed… |
| 23-188 | Robert Dayon Dumas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response Waived | credibility fifth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Did the district court err in finding no Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation based upon the court's credibility determination on Deputy Denbo? |
| 22-978 | Jackie Jackson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether a police search of a car occurred under the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-5809 | Sirron Moralez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights container fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-stop vehicle-search | Does an empty container with 'THC' on the cover justify an extended detention in a traffic stop and support the seizure of the driver and search of th… |
| 22-13 | Nicholas James Imhoff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rental-car search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether a person driving a rental car is sufficient factual basis during a routine traffic stop to create reasonable suspicion to perform a vehicle se… |
| 21-1482 | Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams's Motion to Supress evidence related … |
| 21-7934 | Robert Cash Scheuerman v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-05-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment passenger-rights privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search | Whether passengers are categorically unable to challenge the search of a car in which they are the riding unless they can show an ownership or possess… |
| 21-7785 | Jose Mena-Valdez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure law-enforcement probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Did law enforcement officers have probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle driven by the Defendant? |
| 21-1344 | Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | and established the arrestee's identity secured the arrestee in a police car 4th-amendment arrest-search criminal-procedure established-identity false-identification fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search | Whether police may search a vehicle incident to arrest when the officers have arrested a recent occupant for providing false identification, secured t… | |
| 21-7508 | Draven Greene v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles |
| 21-6857 | Reginald E. Blandford v. New York | New York | 2022-01-14 | Denied | IFP | drug-sniff founded-suspicion fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-york reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment allows police to extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity |
| 21-975 | Idaho v. Aaron James Howard | Idaho | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search | When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer… |
| 21-952 | Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-12-29 | Denied | detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention protective-search protective-search-exception roadside-encounter terry-stop traffic-stop unoccupied-vehicle vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Whether the protective search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to an unoccupied vehicle if the former occupant is detai… | |
| 21-6744 | Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his vehicle |
| 21-922 | James Combs v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment open-view-doctrine plain-view-doctrine pre-textual-search private-property vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's plain view and/or open view doctrines permit a police officer, uninvited and without a warrant, to enter upon private p… |
| 21-6294 | Robert Michael Junkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search | Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' motion to suppress evidence |
| 21-5823 | Salvador Vasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law state-marijuana-laws vehicle-search warrantless-search | When a state has decriminalized marijuana possession and use, does evidence of marijuana use inside a car—combined with nonspecific indications that t… |
| 21-5602 | Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope | Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle |
| 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… |
| 20-7210 | Tesfa Connell v. New York | New York | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car |
| 20-7187 | Haseeb Malik v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law-enforcement vehicle-search | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit local state law enforcement from searching a vehicle to look for a personal use amount of marijuana in states where… |
| 20-6827 | Abdul Majid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Court of Appeals can override the District Court's factual findings and expand the scope of a warrantless search |
| 20-6774 | Craig B. Snoddy v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on invent… |
| 20-6172 | Yulian Manuel Villavicencio, aka Cristian Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment interdiction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether payment of $630 for a SUV rental in the defendant's home state of Florida to go to North Carolina for a visit, the inability to recall the spe… |
| 20-6150 | Andres Keyon Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b… |
| 20-6132 | Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Does Gant's exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable-cause, reasonable-suspicion or a categorical-approach … |
| 20-5555 | Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the traffic stop was lawful where the police had no idea who the driver was but knew the registered owner of the vehicle was neither involved … |
| 19-1468 | Brian Anthony Wiley v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response Waived | campsite-privacy civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct privacy private-property probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless entry and search of a rented campsite |
| 19-8250 | Michael Thomas Gaussiran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-searches unreasonable-searches-and-seizures vehicle-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's Right To Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures Requires Reversal When There Is No Evidence To Support Reasona… |
| 19-8131 | Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a police officer can utter the 'magic words' 'I smelled an odor of marihuana' to justify a warrantless search based on a 'hunch' |
| 19-1161 | Justin Hawkins v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search | Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration—without any additional facts—gives a police officer r… |
| 19-7828 | Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search | Do police officers have probable cause to search a vehicle or box truck without a warrant? |
| 19-7507 | Tommy Gurule v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search? |
| 19-7432 | Edwin David Calligan v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment michigan-v-long officer-safety protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether officers can reasonably fear a suspect will retrieve a weapon after being told he is free to go |
| 19-7221 | Anthony Gray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,probable-cause,search-and-seizure,ma marijuana probable-cause recreational-marijuana search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Does the faint smell of marijuana in a car, alone, give local police probable cause to search the car for contraband under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 19-6859 | Michael A. Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search | Whether an officer with a motive to search for incriminating evidence may impound a vehicle and inventory its contents in contravention of the standar… |
| 19-6640 | Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search | Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had violated federal law and in doing so, violated petitioner Bradley's Fo… |
| 19-5915 | Steven J. Varnauskas v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-09-11 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment license-plate probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-violation vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether a bicycle rack attached to the rear of a vehicle was stowed accordingly and correctly to the manufacturer's instructions and does not obscure … |
| 19-5671 | James Lyle v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | IFP | byrd-v-united-states community-caretaking driver's-license exclusive-possession exclusive-possession-and-control fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure non-criminal-control reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-vehicle trunk-access vehicle-search warrant-exception | Whether a person operating a rental vehicle without a valid driver's license has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle's locked trunk com… |
| 19-5670 | Thomas James v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment byrd-doctrine exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights passenger-standing rakas-v-illinois reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search | Does a passenger have standing to challenge the search of a vehicle in which they have no ownership or possessory interest? |
| 19-5596 | Eric T. Latham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search | Whether the search incident to arrest exception permits police officers to conduct a search based on probable cause for a minor traffic offense and bo… |
| 19-5431 | DeAndre Cherry v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause? |
| 18-1478 | Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Does an indication of a drug-sniffing dog being 'in odor' without an alert provide probable cause for a search? |
| 18-8797 | Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard | Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent |
| 18-8411 | Lecephrus Pierce v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no … |
| 18-8361 | Arturo Sarli v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search | Whether consent to search comes to a natural end after a thorough and fruitless search has been conducted or may officers use the initial consent to s… |
| 18-1157 | Edwin A. Vega v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-07 | Denied | detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure united-states-v-ross usps vehicle-search | Did the Ohio Supreme Court reverse Rodriguez v. United States and permit unlawful detention and search in violation of the Fourth Amendment? | |
| 18-8293 | Rodolfo Rivero Garcia, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol border-search drug-interdiction drug-trafficking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop vehicle-search vehicle-stop | Whether the stop of Mr. Garcia's vehicle was supported by reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-8186 | Kirby Gant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read… |
| 18-7982 | Obelin Jaimes-Aviles v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-14 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's vehicle and its contents violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sea… |
| 18-7875 | Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps | Was Cannon denied his Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 18-1035 | Keithrick Thomas v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-07 | Denied | curtilage driveway plain-view-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search curtilage fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search warrantless-search | Warrantless search of passenger's pockets in driveway violates Fourth Amendment | |
| 18-1006 | Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search | Michael-Kevin-Adams |
| 18-7214 | Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic… |
| 18-7124 | Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-12-19 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Does the Fourth Amendment protect against a 'fishing expedition' to develop 'reasonable suspicion' to exceed the scope of an initial stop in order to … |
| 18-6810 | Timothy Hickman-Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | colorado-v-bertine criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel inventory-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman vehicle-search | Did inventory search violate this Court's decisions in South Dakota v. Opperman and Colorado v. Bertine, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the Consti… |
| 18-6431 | 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 |
| 18-491 | Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-10-17 | Denied | appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure | Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu… | |
| 18-5936 | Terrance D. Johnson v. Randall Williams, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | IFP | evidence-preservation exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from conducting a warrantless search and seizure of a vehicle based solely on probable… |
| 18-5667 | Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure | Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'… |
| 18-5585 | Karen Mackey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's… |