No. 19-8509

Joaquin Gonzales v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2020-05-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: alpr automated-license-plate-reader evidence-standard fourth-amendment license-plate physical-movements reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search
Latest Conference: 2020-06-18
Question Presented (from Petition)

Did a detective's warrantless search of an ALPR database for images and locations of Petitioner's license plate violate petitioner's Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements?

Did the California Court of Appeal apply a standard below the one adopted by this Court in Chapman when it concluded that any constitutional error in admitting the ALPR evidence to show what license plates were on Petitioner's car at the time of an alleged shooting was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, because there was "other evidence" to establish what plates were on Petitioner's car?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did a detective's warrantless search of an ALPR database for images and locations of Petitioner's license plate violate petitioner's Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in the record of his physical movements?

Docket Entries

2020-06-22
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2020.
2020-05-29
Waiver of right of respondent California to respond filed.
2020-05-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 22, 2020)

Attorneys

Joaquin Gonzales
Walter K. Pyle — Petitioner
State of California
Donna Marie ProvenzanoOffice of the California Attorney General, Respondent