No. 22-5213

Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-07-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (from Petition)

Absent reasonable suspicion or officer safety concerns, is a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop a per se "fishing expedition" under the purpose-or-flagrancy prong of the attenuation doctrine?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop is a per se 'fishing expedition' under the attenuation doctrine

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-08-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-08-01
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-07-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 29, 2022)

Attorneys

United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent