No. 21-5898
Ernest Gabriel Verdugo v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: abandoned-address criminal-procedure fourth-amendment independent-access law-enforcement motel-room probable-cause residence residence-definition search-and-seizure
Latest Conference:
2021-11-12
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether police officers establish probable cause that a
motel room is a suspect's "residence" when they learn
that he has abandoned his reported address and find him
in the motel room with another individual, but they do
not investigate whether he or the other individual rented
the room or whether he has any independent access to it.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect's 'residence' when they learn that he has abandoned his reported address and find him in the motel room with another individual, but they do not investigate whether he or the other individual rented the room or whether he has any independent access to it
Docket Entries
2021-11-15
Petition DENIED.
2021-10-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
2021-10-21
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-10-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 4, 2021)
Attorneys
Ernest Verdugo
Joshua D. Weiss — Office of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. Prelogar — Solicitor General, Respondent