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25-6032 Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-05 Denied IFP curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant 1. Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied social license for law enforcement officers to enter the pro…
25-5673 Daquon Rollo Corrothers v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant The first Question Presented is whether the Fourth Amendment protects a citizen from a search of the curtilage surrounding his home, when that search …
24-5955 John C. Coleman v. Ohio Ohio 2024-11-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant Whether the DNA obtained from a suspect without a warrant and without probable cause violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process protec…
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 …
23-7121 Basilio Hernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP docket-procedure docket-sheet exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Did the court err in finding that the good-faith-exception to the exclusionary-rule applied?
23-869 Tyler Land v. Donald L. Edenfield, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-arrest fourth-amendment intentional-misstatements law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-misstatements search-and-seizure warrant When is evidence of mere presence in a car with an alleged drug dealer sufficient for probable cause to arrest the driver?
23-520 Titus Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant-reliability oath probable-cause totality-of-circumstances warrant warrant-issuance Whether the 'totality of the circumstances' standard for evaluating informant reliability has been undermined
23-5775 Suvad Dardagan v. Charles Truitt, Warden Illinois 2023-10-12 Denied IFP affirmation charging-instrument executive-branch fourth-amendment judicial-determination oath probable-cause warrant warrant-requirement Whether in the absence of a judicial determination of probable cause the executive branch of the state government lacks a legal authority to seek a ch…
23-5412 Keith Allen Shrum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process electronic-evidence evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-specificity warrantless-search Whether the exigent circumstances exception saves a warrantless seizure of a defendant's phone
22-1031 Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied 4th-amendment coercive-interrogation consent curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk search seizure warrant warrantless-search Whether the 'knock-and-talk' exception to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful entry onto a person's property permits police officers to…
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
22-5016 Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti…
21-7954 Jordan Monroe v. United States First Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment prima-facie-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-validity Is the warrant herein an invalid search and seizure warrant?
21-7677 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit
21-7597 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…
21-6621 Valentine Okonkwo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-search criminal-prosecution dea dea-inspection due-process forfeiture-judgment prescription-fraud warrant writ-of-audita-querela Did the lower court err for ruling that an administrative search, without a warrant, ostensibly conducted by a DEA Diversionary inspector was lawful t…
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…
21-5732 In Re Artoska Gillispie 2021-09-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance misidentification personal-location-information probable-cause suggestive-identification warrant has-prejudice-been-shown
21-5602 Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle
21-5379 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…
20-8029 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 …
20-6753 Andre Martel Winn v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery-exception
20-823 Robert Lee Crider v. Texas Texas 2020-12-17 Denied blood-extraction bodily-intrusion chemical-analysis fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation search search-and-seizure warrant warrant-scope Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when the government extracts a blood sample by compelled intrusion into a person's body and then chemicall…
20-6265 Alfredo Aguilar Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone cell-phone-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant warrantless-search Whether a warrantless forensic search of a cell phone at a border port of entry is an unreasonable search
20-5749 Elijah Hart v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu…
20-104 Brian Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-07-31 Denied Response Waived blood-draw breath-test excessive-force force fourth-amendment medical-consent needle-phobia search-and-seizure warrant Fourth-Amendment
19-8401 Roderick Delon Lewis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collins-v-virginia curtilage fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant Whether an officer's intrusion into the curtilage of a residence implicated Fourth-Amendment-protections, requiring probable-cause rather than reasona…
19-7682 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it…
19-7477 Raul Mejia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a…
19-7053 Jason Dean Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers…
19-7020 Nahach Garay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search Whether a purported inventory search that produces no inventory can justify the warrantless search of an automobile
19-6060 Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does U.S. v. Knights and Griffin v. Wisconsin still precedent to be relied on?
19-6008 David W. Tippens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init…
19-5897 Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL
19-5444 Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply?
19-5396 Vincent Anzalone v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically applicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
19-5180 Lesa L. Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation government-agents probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrant Whether a generally worded warrant permitting government agents to rummage through and seize papers, documents and records for which no probable cause…
19-21 Gregory Owens v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant?
18-9788 Sarah Denise Cardwell v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search evidence-seizure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina erred in applying a standard of 'more likely than not' in concluding under the Fourth Amendment's plain vi…
18-9736 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant warrantless-search Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
18-9655 Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit affidavit-accuracy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure detective-misconduct fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez probable-cause warrant warrant-preparation Whether the dictates of Groh v. Ramirez were violated when the Detective in this case did not have all the correct facts when preparing a probable cau…
18-9193 Artez Brewer v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-limitations warrant-requirements Whether federal law enforcement exceeds the limitations on the face of the warrant for GPS tracking to in-state monitoring and continues to monitor an…
18-8893 Mark M. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure impairment mental-capacity mental-impairment probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-motion trustworthiness warrant warrant-issuance witness witness-credibility witness-testimony Does probable cause to issue a warrant extend to situations where a witness to alleged criminal behavior was severely impaired?
18-8795 Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause?
18-8779 Yamura D. Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant Whether the 11th Circuit courts must suppress the fruits of the admitted to illegal search and seizure
18-1248 Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response Waived child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc…
18-8508 Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight…
18-1173 I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Amici (7) child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a caseworker to obtain a warrant to strip-search a child
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…
18-7794 John M. Krott v. Scott May, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest-validity backdated-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fabricated-warrant fabrication habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge standing substantive-rights warrant warrant-fabrication Whether the petitioner's substantive due process rights were violated when the courts dismissed his habeas petition despite the existence of an active…
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 …
18-7534 Tylon Hudson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment parolee probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure warrant Does a Police officer who without reasonable belief that a parolee is inside his residence and repeatedly enters the parolee's unoccupied residence, i…
18-6116 Anthony Allen Jean v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to warrants void ab initio?
18-285 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…
18-5588 Juan Manuel Sanchez-Jara v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-simulator fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search privacy probable-cause residence surveillance warrant Whether location of a cell phone user in his residence through use of a cell site simulator, without a probable cause warrant, but with a 'warrant and…
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…