Reasonable-Suspicion
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6640 | Juan Carlos Bejar-Guizar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol fourth-amendment illegal-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances | Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude facts that show a likelihood of innocent behavi… |
| 25-6550 | George Madison Kitchen, IV v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | evidence-rule-404b federal-appellate-review hearsay-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard traffic-stop | 1. WHETHER THE 8TH CIRCUIT ERRED FINDING THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTED JUSTIFYING THE STOP OF PETITIONER'S VEHICLE AND MISAPPLYING RODRIGUEZ ON WH… |
| 25-688 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Pending | law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation | 1. Does a police officer observing an undisputed legal act(s) or something that is not illegal, without more, provide probable cause or a reasonable i… | |
| 25-629 | Billy Puckett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-questions police-procedure reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | In Rodriguez v. United States, this Court held that a police officer may not extend a traffic stop, absent reasonable suspicion, to conduct a dog snif… |
| 25-6145 | Gabriel Gallegos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion show-of-authority terry-stop vehicle-stop | When law enforcement makes a show of authority that causes a vehicle to come to a complete stop, however briefly, before fleeing, is that a stop withi… |
| 25-583 | Rodney Towe v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-11-17 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte… | |
| 25-6051 | Claude Coleman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | fourth-amendment high-crime-area misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | The Fourth Amendment protects citizens in public spaces from being seized by law enforcement without reasonable suspicion that they have committed a c… |
| 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 … |
| 25A370 | Eric Lebron Burney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | cannabis fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the "plain smell doctrine" remains valid when applied to cannabis today, because the odor of cannabis no longer plainly identifies an illegal … | |
| 25A260 | Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana | Montana | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | consent fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 25-248 | District of Columbia v. R.W. | District of Columbia | 2025-09-03 | Pending | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | fourth-amendment investigative-stop judicial-review law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances | 1. Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude a fact known to the officer, or instead must… |
| 25-182 | Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights community-caretaker consent-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion seizure | This case concerns a federal law enforcement officer's initial detention of a civilian with a post-hoc explanation of a "welfare check" or "communit… |
| 25-5329 | Duane Gary Underwood, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress other-acts-evidence reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure voir-dire | I. Mr. Underwood challenged his seizure and search because there was no reasonable suspicion to justify the detention and search. Did the court err in… |
| 25A169 | Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Pedro Vasquez Perdomo, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Presumed Complete | Amici (2) | fourth-amendment illegal-aliens immigration-enforcement investigative-stops reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances | Question not identified. |
| 25A63 | District of Columbia v. R.W. | District of Columbia | 2025-07-16 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment investigative-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances | 1. This case involves an important question regarding the constitutional standard for a police officer to conduct an investigative stop. It is well es… | |
| 24-7465 | Nikky Nicole Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | In Rodrig uez v. United S tates, 575 U.S. 348, 354 (2015) , this Court held that an officer needs reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop beyon… |
| 24-7288 | Quaid Akeem Cornell v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | IFP | fourth-amendment group-detention ineffective-assistance investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | 1. May police officers detain and search all members of group on grounds that the behavior of one person was suspicious? 2. Is trial counsel constitu… |
| 24-7229 | DeAndre Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | WHETHER the Third Circuit's ruling that an officer's mere suspicion of a suspects dangerousness absent any additional facts supports an arrest rather … |
| 24-7021 | Moises Garcia v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-04-17 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement presumptively-lawful reasonable-suspicion | May the police conduct an investigative detention after observing a presumptively lawful act without additional information to suggest that criminal a… |
| 24-6962 | Prince L. Spellman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-suspicion standing suppression-hearing terry-stop | 1. ) Whether this Courts.decision in Combs v. United States 408 US 224, 33 L Ed 2d 308, 92 SCT 2284 (1972) and its progeny should be sustained when th… |
| 24-6738 | Steven Dewayne Barnes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure firearm-possession reasonable-suspicion second-amendment sentencing-enhancement terry-stop | 1. The Eleventh Circuit erred in concluding that officers had reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry stop and frisk based on ambiguous and subjective… |
| 24-6499 | Michael J. Baniel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment narcotics-investigation probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether Trooper Colton Derrick unreasonably extended Mr. Michael J. Baniel's traffic stop, that was preceded by and subjugated to a narcotics investig… |
| 24-6467 | Ronnie Robinson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-search constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probation-search reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search | 1. Was the warrantless search of Petitioner's cell phone unconstitutional when there was no reasonable suspicion to believe that the phone contained e… |
| 24-6188 | John Earl Broomfield, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 911-call anonymous-tip fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion supreme-court-precedent | Whether the 911 callers in this matter were "anonymous" callers, and, if so, was the opinion in this matter then in conflict with Florida v. J.L., 529… |
| 24-6091 | Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | 1). Why has The United State Court of Appeal For the Tenth Circuit entered a decision so far departed from the accepted and usual courts of judicial p… |
| 24-6080 | Victor Manuel Ramirez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop | A traffic stop is a warrantless Fourth Amendment seizure of all the occupants of the car. Like other temporary detentions of individuals, "the tolerab… |
| 24-5687 | Solomon Odubajo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure source-state terry-stop warrantless-search | 1. Given Deputy Twombly's admission on the record (PagelD //500, 9-14) that the only factor establishing reasonable suspicion to seize the Parcel was… |
| 24-5505 | David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop warrantless-detention | After a traffic stop for a misdemeanor traffic violation is complete, and a citation has been issued, does possession of cash alone satisfy this Court… |
| 24-5332 | Armando Daniel Calderon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights reasonable-suspicion vehicle-seizure | 1. Does an officer interfere with a driver's property rights, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by continuing to seize a vehicle after the driver … |
| 24A157 | United States v. Landon R. Mayo | District of Columbia | 2024-08-08 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5197 | Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-investigation empirical-evidence fourth-amendment officer-mistake probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he seizes for criminal investigation a pedestrian walking in the vicinity of a recent robb… |
| 24A72 | Raymond N. Bailey, Jr. v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2024-07-22 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-waiver warrantless-search | The question presented in this case is whether a warrantless search violates the Fourth Amendment where, although a person has consented to warrantles… | |
| 24A34 | David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment investigatory-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 24A9 | Nathan Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Presumed Complete | armed-and-dangerous criminal-activity fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7827 | Gianni Montay Minners v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment gang-affiliation high-crime-area investigative-detention law-enforcement prior-gun-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Is it reasonable for an officer to conduct an investigative detention where there are insufficient facts in the record to conclude that an individual … |
| 23-7824 | Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-balancing law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop whren-v-united-states | The question presented is whether an admittedly pretextual traffic stop by law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment when it is based not on proba… |
| 23A996 | Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 23A975 | Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6909 | Arnold D. Holland v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure supervised-release totality-of-circumstances | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to the act of searching or the initial decision to search, based on an objective standard considering the tota… |
| 23-907 | Pablo Pastrana v. New York | New York | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | brown-vs-texas constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-roadblocks probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadblock search-and-seizure | Whether a vehicular roadblock satisfies the standard for a reasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment, articulated in Brown v. Texas, 44… |
| 23-885 | Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-02-16 | Denied | anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | In Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1973), this Court recognized the "community caretaking" function of police. In Florida v. J.L., 529 U.S. 266 (200… | |
| 23-6580 | Charles Ramon, III, aka Charles Roger Ramon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidence fourth-amendment privacy-expectation probation probation-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search | This Court's prior precedent in Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 U.S. 868 (1987) and its progeny hold that a person's status as a supervised releasee, such a… |
| 23-6523 | Mark David Galloway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur… |
| 23-6352 | LaDerrius Williams v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure due-process owner-driver-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-ownership | Whether Glover's owner-driver inference constitutes, not only reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop of a motorist if the police have reason … |
| 23-499 | Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | While out shopping five days before Christmas, Petitioner had a brief interaction in the public parking lot of a shopping center with a man agents sus… |
| 23-5988 | Robert Benjamin Stout v. Sergeant Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment license-checkpoint obstruction-of-justice probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadway-safety | Question #1: Are police, absent reasonable suspicion, permitted to conduct driver's license checkpoints, or roadway safety checkpoints requiring drive… |
| 23-5982 | Garnet Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled. |
| 23-5952 | Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | I. Mr. Williams moved to suppress the evidence related to the controlled substances because he was unlawfully detained when there was no reasonable su… |
| 23-5921 | Vahe Sarkiss v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-commerce reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release | 1. Whether Petitioner Vahe Sarkiss' Fourth Amendment rights were violated because there was no reasonable suspicion of a violation of supervised relea… |
| 23-446 | Junjie Li v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the slight odor of marijuana coming from within a car stopped for a passenger's seatbelt violation, in a state where possession of one ounce o… |
| 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 | Narcotics agents were surveilling a house based on unidentified "concerned citizen" calls of a high volume of short-stay traffic. Without corroboratin… |
| 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 | The question presented is whether a police officer detours from the lawful mission of a traffic stop by ordering that the driver of a car exit the veh… |
| 23-221 | Andrew H. Zoellick v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisprudential-definition mitigating-factors probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether the absence of any jurisprudential definition of the term "totality," as applied to the totality of the circumstances test under the Fourth Am… |
| 23-5185 | Yolanda Howard v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | I. Did the Maine State Trooper's hunch that "there were a lot of drugs in this car" based solely on his initial encounter with Ms. Howard justify dela… |
| 23-5112 | Kashif M. Robertson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-procedure motor-vehicle-code probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop unrelated-questioning | 1. Whether the State Court's of Pennsylvania Committed Reversible Error by Lowering the Fourth Amendment Standard that Reviewing Court's Must Look at … |
| 22-7853 | Carlos Miguel Concepcion-Guliam v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant | Should a writ of certiorari be granted to clarify whether an exception to the Fourth Amendment can be applied randomly or if law enforcement officers … |
| 22-7691 | Jace Emerson Fesler v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-procedure reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Does a citizen's noncompliance with an unlawful order from law enforcement create reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk? |
| 22-7514 | Joshua Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment color-discrepancy fourth-amendment high-crime-area probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-registration | A vehicle might appear to be a certain color, but its registration says that it should be a different color. This might happen if a motorist decide d … |
| 22-1091 | David Zook v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena civil-procedure due-process epa federal-agency official-curiosity reasonable-suspicion rule-6a | Must the issuance and/or enforcement of an administrative subpoena (EPA) to a private individual be supported by something beyond "official curiosity"… |
| 22-7253 | Ilse Ivon Solis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states scope-of-justification traffic-stop | I. IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S OPINION IN RODRIGUEZ V. UNITED STATES, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), DID THE OFFICER'S INQUIRIES UNJUSTIFIABLY PROLONG THE TRAFFIC … |
| 22-6872 | Gustavo Guzman v. California | California | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conduct fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence government-informant home-surveillance reasonable-suspicion warrantless-entry | 1. Whether or under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment permits a government informant's warrantless entry into a person's home to monitor, transm… |
| 22-6802 | Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | A police officer cannot touch a person's body or possessions without consent or legally sufficient basis. Likewise, an officer cannot force himself up… |
| 22-728 | Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | 1. This Court has repeatedly instructed the lower courts that in determining whether a right is clearly established for purposes of qualified immunity… |
| 22-6580 | Daniel J. Campbell v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search search-conditions state-supervision | 1. Is a search reasonable under the 4th Amendment when a probation officer who lacks required reasonable suspicion and is in violation of Ohio Revised… |
| 22-6552 | Sergio Guerrero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ammunition-possession bill-of-rights fourth-amendment lawful-materials probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment warrantless-arrest | Is the Ninth Circuit's decision consistent with this Court's precedents? |
| 22-6378 | Angela Dee Garges v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dwelling-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's determination that law enforcement officers may search an entire dwelling without probable cause or reasonable s… |
| 22-6286 | John Yang v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment, U.S. Const. Amend. IV, permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants when the officer only knows that… |
| 22-6053 | Charles Skaggs, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search border-searches electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement warrantless-search | I. Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the United States border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on proba… |
| 22-5925 | Christopher Santillanes Ceja v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-investigation drug-trafficking fourth-amendment investigative-duration law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | 1. Was the traffic stop of Mr. Ceja unreasonably prolonged when officers conducted two consecutive investigations, one for an alleged traffic violatio… |
| 22-5821 | Felipe Noriega, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to extend a concluded traffic stop based on minimal, if any, suspicious factors. 2. Whether t… |
| 22-307 | Michigan v. Marcus Martell McCloud and Bruce Cliffin Edwards | Michigan | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | commonsense-judgments criminal-procedure detention frisk human-behavior law-enforcement officer-experience probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop weapons-frisk | Police preparing to enter a suspected unlicensed after-hours drinking establishment to make an under-cover purchase removed the two respondents from j… |
| 22-5273 | Bradley Beauchamp v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation | 1. Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articul… |
| 22-5213 | Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check | Absent reasonable suspicion or officer safety concerns, is a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop a per se "fishing expediti… |
| 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… |
| 21-8150 | Lorenzo Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment parole parole-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search | (1) Whether the lower courts erred in allowing the Petitioner's cell phone to be searched just because he was on State parole from the State of Tennes… |
| 21-7889 | Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | Mr. Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting was a passenger in a car stopped by three police officers for a minor traffic infraction. At the time of the traffic stop,… |
| 21-7848 | Martin Ibarra-Ozuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collective-knowledge-doctrine constitutional-limits law-enforcement officer-request pretext-stops probable-cause reasonable-suspicion united-states-v-hensley vehicle-stop whiteley-v-warden | A. When officers who have probable cause for an arrest or vehicle stop request another officer to take only a particular, limited action, does the "co… |
| 21-7603 | Glen S. Evans v. Bill Stange, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence motion-to-suppress prejudice reasonable-suspicion second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Where the trial court has erred and abused its discretion in overruling defendant's motion to suppress his statements to police, and in admitting … |
| 21-7416 | Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia | Virginia | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Where officers work together in concerted action to "produce" reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o… |
| 21-7324 | Caleb Guerrier v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-arrest law-enforcement-procedure protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement | When arresting someone in a home, police may search immediately adjoining spaces from which they could be directly attacked. To search other areas, ho… |
| 21-7313 | Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Question not identified. |
| 21-7287 | Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether It Is Not Necessary To Evaluate The Basis Of Knowledge Underlying An Informant's Tip If The Informant Is A Police Officer. |
| 21-7153 | Arthur Miles v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions | Can facts observed or learned by a police officer after he decided to initiate a traffic stop, which traffic stop was delayed a short distance only ba… |
| 21-1091 | Edwin Espejo v. Washington | Washington | 2022-02-07 | Denied | clear-and-present-danger community-care-exception community-caretaking domestic-violence due-process fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | 1. Does the community care exception to the fourth amendment allow police officers to remain in a person's home when they have determined that there i… | |
| 21-7038 | Jeremy William Lillich v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment identification reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop warrant-execution | Petitioner Jeremy Lillich pleaded guilty, pursuant to a conditional plea agreement, to violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), 2… |
| 21-6939 | Clarence Tramiel Beard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention law-enforcement-procedure mail mail-seizure package-transportation reasonable-suspicion transportation united-states-v-place | 1. Whether the investigatory detention, and subsequent transportation to a new location, of an item seized from the mail intrudes on a possessory inte… |
| 21-6904 | Michel Thomas v. Stafflink, Inc., dba Link Staffing Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | X. What is the proper standard of review when it comes to the question of a void judgment and/or a constitutional question, and/or question of law, an… |
| 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 | This Court has held that under the Fourth Amendment police officers may not extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff of a vehicle's exterior with… |
| 21-941 | Aldo Daniel Gastelum v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-27 | Denied | circuit-split consensual-search fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-supreme-court-rulings voluntary-consent | Whether a search is "consensual" under the Fourth Amendment when a police officer directly orders an individual he is detaining to submit to the searc… | |
| 21-6615 | Fabian I. Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure | Once objective facts have dispelled the officer's suspicions, may a person still be detained on a hunch? |
| 21-835 | Otha Ray Flowers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether conduct that is consistent with either lawful or unlawful behavior, and in which law-abiding members of the general public routinely engage, c… | |
| 21-6449 | Pizarro Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure | QUESTION 1 : WAS THERE "REASONABLE SUSPICION" JUSTIFYING PETITIONER'S STOP AND FRISK UNDER TERRY WHEN THE OFFICERS EFFECTING THE "STOP " DID NOT OBSER… |
| 21-6251 | Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention | Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the… |
| 21-532 | Jacob Matthew Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | calls-for-service criminal-activity fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search | Can three or four unadorned "calls for service" to an area (1) constitute a specific and articulable fact significantly associating said area with cri… |
| 21-5913 | Desmond S. Gaines v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 911-tip anonymous-tip anonymous-tips corroboration drug-sales reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure terry-stop totality-of-circumstances | An anonymous tip must either be reliable on its own or be adequately corroborated before it can provide reasonable suspicion to seize a person. This C… |
| 21-5835 | Guillermo Gonzalez-Zea v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights identity immigration investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion terry-v-ohio | I. Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968) and its progeny, law enforcement officers may conduct a brief, investigative stop when, under the … |
| 21-383 | Wyoming v. William Thomas Mahaffy, V | Wyoming | 2021-09-09 | Denied | constitutional-law de-minimis-extension duration-of-stop fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unrelated-questioning | Did the Rodriguez Court's rejection of de minimis extensions to traffic stops abrogate or limit Johnson, thereby prohibiting officers from posing any … | |
| 21-374 | Steven Edward Struve v. Iowa | Iowa | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | cellphone-use civil-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion texting-while-driving traffic-stop | Whether police officers in those states have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate an investigatory traffic stop, where they obs… |
| 21-5612 | Geontay Patterson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | I. Mr. Patterson moved to suppress controlled substances found during a search of his person because there was no constitutional basis to seize and se… |
| 21-5528 | Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop | Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure. |
| 21-287 | Benjamin Caleb Trott v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response Waived | anonymous-tip drunk-driving fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-stop | 1. Whether or under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment permits courts to balance the risk of harm posed by drunk driving against the intrusivenes… |
| 21-5287 | Cherosco Brewer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states terry-v-ohio traffic-stop | 1. For an otherwise lawful traffic stop for a routine traffic violation, does the stop fail the duration test of Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. … |
| 21-5176 | De'Undre Rashad Robert Turner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment federal-courts noncriminal-violation reasonable-suspicion seizure state-courts | 1. Whether a seizure can be initiated upon reasonable suspicion of a noncriminal violation. 2. Whether law enforcement officers have reasonable suspi… |
| 21-5027 | Shane LaGrange v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT IMPROPERLY CONCLUDED THAT THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PERMITS THE COURT TO FIND THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION FOR A TRAFFIC STOP EXIST… |
| 20-1685 | Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | The Fourth Amendment requires that a Terry stop be supported by some minimal level of objective justification for the stop. In conducting a Fourth Ame… | |
| 20-8179 | Chad Alan Soderman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation investigative-detention police-investigation reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states supervisory-power traffic-stop | 1. ) Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated under Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) where individual acts by police to investigate a … |
| 20-8180 | Benjamin Ross v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation fourth-amendment pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | NO. 1 WHETHER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT REQUIRES REASONABLE, ARTICULABLE SUSPICION AND PROBABLE CAUSE TO JUSTIFY A PRETEXTUAL TRAFFIC STOP? NO. 2. WHETHER… |
| 20-8160 | Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Does a sweatshirt bulge alone give an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop Bontemps? |
| 20-8156 | Ricardo Renteria v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r… |
| 20-8057 | Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | border-search civil-rights electronic-devices electronic-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless forensic search at a border by agent of the United States of electronic cell phones and computers, lacking a reasonable suspicio… |
| 20-1505 | Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement | Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on probable cause, o… |
| 20-7716 | Milton Mosley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | The finding of the lower courts, where suspicion of criminal activity was clearly not "specific, individualized, and reasonable," is contrary to the S… |
| 20-7612 | Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop | To uphold a Terry frisk as constitutional, the First and Ninth Circuits require the frisking officer to have actually suspected that the detainee may … |
| 20-1340 | Amanuel Gebrengus Atsemet v. Texas | Texas | 2021-03-24 | Denied | circuit-court-split constitutional-right-to-travel constitutional-rights fourth-amendment license-plate-profiling marijuana-legalization reasonable-suspicion right-to-travel totality-of-circumstances | When applying the "totality of the circumstances" test for reasonable suspicion in a state that has criminalized marijuana, does the consideration of … | |
| 20-7444 | Toddrey Bruce v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop | In Navarette v. California, the Court held that the "absence of additional suspicious conduct"—five minutes of normal driving—did not dispel reasonabl… |
| 20-7423 | Jose Jesus Cruz v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment destruction-of-evidence evidence-destruction exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | 1. Is it reasonable for law enforcement to enter a suspect's home under the exigent circumstances (fear of imminent destruction of evidence) exception… |
| 20-7329 | Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether, under the totality-of-the circumstances test, the police officers in this case had reasonable suspicion that justified an investigative stop … |
| 20-7290 | Michael Scott Hanuman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure emergency-aid emergency-aid-doctrine fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | This Court has held that when law enforcement officers are lawfully present within a private home to make an arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a pr… |
| 20-7119 | Javier Alejandro Moline-Borroto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment checkpoint-seizure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-encounter prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the lower courts erred by finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to transform a suspicionless checkpoint seizure into a prolonged i… |
| 20-7003 | Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop | Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion where a police officer violated a rule announced in Terry v. Ohio, under the Fourth Ame… |
| 20-1027 | Joshua Coleman v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure unreasonable-seizures | Does the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures tolerate a dog sniff which prolongs a stop, which occurs after all purposes for the… |
| 20-6960 | DeAndre McMichaels v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment concealed-carry fourth-amendment law-enforcement public-carry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | In a state that permits residents to legally carry concealed firearms while in public, whether or under what circumstances an officer's belief that a … |
| 20-993 | Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a police officer may, in the absence of reasonable suspicion, extend an otherwise completed traffic stop, justified only by a police officer o… |
| 20-6586 | Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement | 1. Police officers may stop a person under an exception to the warrant requirement only if they have reasonable suspicion to support an assertion of i… |
| 20-6551 | Andy Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rehaif-v-united-states warrantless-search | Question One: Was the second warrantless search of the car - which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-deve… |
| 20-6472 | Raquel Cortez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | This Court has held that held that the use of a drug-detention canine unit after the completion of an otherwise lawful traffic stop exceeded the time … |
| 20-6480 | Maurice Freeman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment bailey-v-united-states detention fourth-amendment immediate-vicinity michigan-v-summers police-authority premises-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant | 1. Does the rule of Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981), which permits police officers executing a search warrant to detain occupants of a reside… |
| 20-6454 | Mark David Zimmerman v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree k-9-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | #I: Oid The State of Texas ard the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, the State Court of last resort, err by affrming the lower trial Court and Judge Br… |
| 20-733 | Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the "individualized suspicion" required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots? | |
| 20-6300 | Bryan Mitchell Lietzau v. Arizona | Arizona | 2020-11-13 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment privacy-rights probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search warrantless-search | Does the Fourth Amendment require reasonable suspicion for a probation officer to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's person or property? … |
| 20-6216 | Michael E. Torres v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act arrest criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure investigative-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion | 1. The Fourth Amendment requires that police have probable cause before subjecting an individual to an arrest. Police surrounded Appellant, ordered hi… |
| 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… |
| 20-6142 | Steven Spain v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment gun-rights law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment terry-v-ohio | In a state that allows residents to carry a firearm in public, is it reasonabl e under the Fourth Amendment to stop and arrest someone for carryi ng a… |
| 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 reasonable-to-believe exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable cause, reasonable suspicion or a… |
| 20-6090 | Reginald Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion testimony | 1. Can a court determine that an encounter was initially consensual when the officer testified that he did not remember how it was initiated, nor is i… |
| 20-518 | Darrius Marcel Mastin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | arrest-warrant bystander-detention constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement-authority michigan-v-summers police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981), authorizes police officers executing an arrest warrant to detain a bystander without individualized … | |
| 20-6055 | Terrill Bernard Weatherspoon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment companion-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety pat-down-search reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | MUST AN OFFICER HAVE A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT A COMPANION OF AN ARRESTEE IS ARMED AND DANGEROUS, INDEPENDENTLY OF A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT THE A… |
| 20-5991 | Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated by Officer Windham by extending his detention of Reyes for over 20 minutes to allow for a canine to … |
| 20-5967 | John Elisha Mayville v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop | Whether an officer can spend his time conducting unrelated investigations, such as a dog sniff, while he is waiting for the results of a twelve minute… |
| 20-411 | Traize T. Wash v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states | 1. Whether a police officer's subject ive intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and un… |
| 20-5843 | Courtney C. Brown v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-authority reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-us search search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | 1. Should the Court reverse Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106, 109-10 (1977), wherein, based on "the inordinate risk confronting an officer as he ap… |
| 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 | Duri ng the early morni ng hours, a shooti ng took place in a parking lot of an apartment compl ex. The crime scene was large. There were a lot of she… |
| 20-5405 | Jaroderick Hardy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause proximity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968) and its progeny, law enforcement officers may conduct a brief, investigative stop when, under the tot… |
| 20-5390 | Michael Betts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation. |
| 20-5392 | Jermaine Tyrone Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | completed-misdemeanor criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | Is reasonable suspicion of a completed misdemeanor sufficient under the Fourth Amendment to justify an investigatory stop of a vehicle when there is n… |
| 20-5338 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-tip corroboration domestic-violence fourth-amendment police-response probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk | 1. Does an anonymous tip providing minimal physical and location descriptors and alleging ongoing domestic violence that is not corroborated when poli… |
| 20-5187 | Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Question not identified. |
| 19-8754 | Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression | I. Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the dis… |
| 19-8676 | Fatou Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment informant-tip probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-offense vehicle-stop | Whether a vehicle stop was performed in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights when no observable traffic offense was committed by Petition… |
| 19-8594 | Justin Harrington Darrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow officer-safety reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether "officer safety" can justify the seizure of a person for a Terry stop, instead of pointing to specific, articulable facts that lead him to rea… |
| 19-1309 | Kari Janae Phipps v. Idaho | Idaho | 2020-05-21 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment detention detention-authority fourth-amendment michigan-v-summers probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion residence-check search-and-seizure search-warrant summers-doctrine | Whether the "limited authority to detain" during the execution of a judicially approved search warrant for contraband, Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 6… |
| 19-8423 | Christopher Gies v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause probation-search reasonable-suspicion statutory-compliance warrantless-search warrants-clause | Does a warrantless probation search conducted outside the scope of an authorizing state regulation and not authorized by a condition of probation, and… |
| 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 | 1- Whether an officer's intrusion into the front and back yards of the Petitioner's residence so obviously implicated the Fourth Amendment curtilage p… |
| 19-1221 | Derrick Lucius Williams, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | border-search circuit-split customs digital-device forensic-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrant-exception | To conduct a warrantless forensic search of a digital device at the border, do government agents need reasonable suspicion that the device contains di… | |
| 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" long after he conducted illegal search of a vehicle to justify sai… |
| 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 offic… |
| 19-8050 | Cuwan Merritt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-sniff criminal-procedure de-facto-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-articulable-suspicion reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the level of corroboration and investigation required for reasonable articulable suspicion gives rise to a de facto arrest, which requires pro… |
| 19-7881 | Tavares L. Farrington v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop | Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po… |
| 19-1059 | Angela Hamm, et vir v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement-search privacy privacy-rights probation probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether police violate the Fourth Amendment when they conduct a suspicionless search of a probationer's home. |
| 19-7716 | Timmy Wallace v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment database-search fourth-amendment police-database reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-identification | 1. Does Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015) permit a traffic stop to be extended based on a suspicion that had already been dispelled b… |
| 19-7519 | Ericka Hernandez-Nunez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-detection criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment holistic-analysis inculpatory-evidence law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-inference reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment requirement of reasonableness requires that a determination of reasonable suspicion be based upon an explicit identificat… |
| 19-7490 | Omar Ernesto Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appeal conclusory-statements criminal-procedure fourth-amendment human-smuggling investigatory-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-database reasonable-suspicion | Whether, in determining that there was reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop, the district court and Ninth Circuit erred by relying on factua… |
| 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 | 1. Whether this Court should reconsider the reasonableness of its premise in Michigan v. Long; 463 U.S. 1032 (1983), that officers could reasonably fe… |
| 19-7370 | Mario Alberto Buenrostro-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-tip border-patrol border-security civil-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | Whether an individual's telephone call to law enforcement, in which he stated that a person was picked up by vehicle in an area known for alien smug g… |
| 19-814 | Tony Deshawn McCoy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-and-dangerous fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion marijuana-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether officers can presume that a person is "armed and presently dangerous" simply because the person possesses any amount of marijuana, however sma… |
| 19-6343 | Antoine Richmond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Police officers were patrolling a residential neighborhood when they saw Petitioner walking on the sidewalk. They saw that he had something in his fro… |
| 19-452 | Gregory Clark v. Austin Clark | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response Waived | excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion seizure voluntary-interaction | 1. During a voluntary interaction in which the subject hands a police officer his ID, if the officer runs the subject is it an unconstitutional seizur… |
| 19-426 | Pennsylvania v. Michael J. Hicks | Pennsylvania | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process element-or-defense-test firearm-possession innocent-scenarios law-enforcement police-officer police-stop reasonable-suspicion stop totality-of-circumstances | 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision in this case is contrary to this Court's precedent and established framework for the analysis of … |
| 19-327 | Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. | Ohio | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | This dispute turns on the proper interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In a jurisdiction where citizens are entitl… |
| 19-5751 | Charles Massengill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search | Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of… |
| 19-5600 | Rafael Tello v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol canine-sniff fourth-amendment free-air-sniff immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure united-states-v-martinez-fuerte | May a Border Patrol agent working in the primary inspection lane of an interior immigration checkpoint extend the immigration stop beyond the "brief q… |
| 19-5456 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-05 | GVR | IFP | anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals | 1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… |
| 19-5347 | Joshua Frederick Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-sniff due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Will this Honrable Curt revisit Elrida VHars to clariy what the Court meant bY "THE DOG'S ALERT"? Is THE DOG'S ALERT, the behavior that the day is IRA… |
| 19-5306 | Born Murray v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop | Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe… |
| 18-1577 | Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams | Pennsylvania | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | The question presented is whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of … |
| 18-9756 | Hector Guadalupe Lozano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-possession odor-detection probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether a drug dog's alert, standing alone, is sufficient to establish probable cause to search when the dog is known to react to the odor of a substa… |
| 18-1554 | Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor. |
| 18-9722 | Jonathan Edward Meier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-detention pat-down probable-cause prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure unreasonable-search weapons-search | Whether law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when it holds an individual for a prolonged period… |
| 18-9631 | Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin | whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l… |
| 18-1486 | Zachariah J. Marshall v. Indiana | Indiana | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment federal-precedent fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion speeding traffic-stop vehicle-movement vehicle-speed warrantless-stop | Whether the Supreme Court of Indiana's decision was contrary to federal precedent when it held that there was reasonable suspicion to substantiate a w… |
| 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 | When a drug-sniffing dog fails to alert as trained to but, according to its handler is behaving as if he is "in odor" of the presence of drugs, does t… |
| 18-9381 | Hubert Youte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | IFP | border-search civil-rights fourth-amendment living-quarters maritime-law reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vessel vessel-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion to enter and search the living quarters on a vessel docked at the border. |
| 18-1408 | John Washek v. Vermont | Vermont | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop | 1. Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations … |
| 18-9036 | Gregory Tarrel Brown v. Virginia, et al. | Virginia | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | 1. Was the entry by law enforcement on the curtilage of the property based on an unsubstantiated tip, without consent, violative of the Fourth Amendme… |
| 18-8988 | Airrington L. Sykes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | (1) Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminal… |
| 18-8785 | Temarco Sartorio Pope, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | (1) Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminal… |
| 18-8438 | Abdul Cole v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability | IM asking the Court to over look My Case, and I'm hoping oCan be dismissed. it Will the outCome of the Writ of Certiorari affect My |
| 18-1188 | Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision | Where one driver involved in a vehicle collision did not report to police that she observed any behavior by the other driver (Jacobi) to suggest that … |
| 18-8377 | Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure | WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD REASONABLE SUSPICION TO SEIZE MR. BOOKER SHABAZZALLAH? WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD PROBABLE CAUSE TO CONVERT SEIZURE INTO AN AR… |
| 18-1166 | Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | Whether Illinois v. Lidster, 540 U.S. 419 (2004), allows the police to stop a criminal suspect in the absence of reasonable suspicion on the ground th… |
| 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 | 1. In its decision in the above captioned matter did the Ohio Supreme Court reverse this honorable Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States, 135… | |
| 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 of illegal activity where the only factors present were: (1) the stop o… |
| 18-8213 | Hector Santillan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment minority-communities police-interrogation police-investigation prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion reid-v-georgia rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether, per the Fourth Amendment and this Court's holdings in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 1609, 1616 (2015) and Reid v. Georgia, 448 U.S. 4… |
| 18-8177 | Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Under this Court's Fourth Amendment decisions, an officer is prohibited from prolonging a traffic stop beyond its original purpose without "reasonable… |
| 18-1111 | James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. | Wisconsin | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders | The State of Wisconsin (like several other states) enacted their lifetime GPS monitoring law for sex offenders in 2008 and made that law retroactive t… |
| 18-7882 | Christopher M. Gates v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force | A. Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or "Terry stop," where there is a risk to officer safety. B. Whethe… |
| 18-7294 | Sergio Antonio Zambrano v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment pat-down probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search warrantless-searches | Where a police officer initiates a stop of an individual pursuant to Terry v. Ohio and pats down the outer clothing of the individual and feels an obj… |
| 18-7195 | Eduardo Gomez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence criminal-activity firearm-possession investigatory-seizure police-powers reasonable-suspicion | Does suspected possession of a firearm, on its own, provide a police officer with reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify an investigator… |
| 18-7179 | Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2018-12-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony | Whether a persons mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, withoutmore, give rise to probable cause to search that perso… |
| 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 | In Ohio v. Robinette, 519 U.S. 35, 41 (1996) Justice Ginsburg, in a concurring opinion, discussed the need to evaluate both the reason for an initial … |
| 18-6963 | Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental | Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable… |
| 18-6908 | Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | IFP | 42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop - a traffic stop without either probabl… |
| 18-667 | Lonnie Charles Williams, III v. Texas | Texas | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | driving-while-intoxicated drug-detection fourth-amendment intoxication-signs law-enforcement odor-of-alcohol probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment can exist in a driving while intoxicated context when officers do not detect the odor of alcoh… |
| 18-6775 | Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search | At the suppression hearing in this federal criminal case, the district court explicitly relied on Petitioner's race to conclude that there was reasona… |
| 18-6664 | Daniel David Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower courts erred in denying Mr. Garza's Motion to Suppress based on the erroneous finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to i… |
| 18-556 | Kansas v. Charles Glover | Kansas | 2018-10-29 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment habitual-violator investigative-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion registered-owner traffic-law traffic-laws vehicle-registration vehicle-stop | A Kansas officer ran a registration check on a pickup truck and learned that the registered owner's license had been revoked. Suspecting that the owne… |
| 18-6484 | Markus Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment pat-down police-procedure prior-incidents reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether factors based largely on prior incidents, some years old, can provide a police officer with the reasonable suspicion the Fourth Amendment requ… |
| 18-531 | Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa | Iowa | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | cady-v-dombrowski cady-v-drombrowski community-caretaking constitutional-law exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment immediate-need objective-facts police-assistance probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-seizure | WHETHER THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN CADY V. DROMBROWSKI, 413 U.S. 433 (1973), PERMITS A WARRANTLESS SEIZURE UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT WITHOUT OBJECTIVE F… |
| 18-6390 | Valiant White v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-10-19 | Denied | IFP | acquitted-conduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree impeachment-of-jury-verdict independent-finding-of-guilt ineffective-counsel jury-acquitted-conduct jury-trial jury-trial-right reasonable-suspicion | WHETHER, CONTRARY TO UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENTS, THE TRIAL COURT, MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS, MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT ARBITRARILY DENIED PET… |
| 18-6297 | Jorge Robles-Avalos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-the-circumstances vehicle-stop | In ruling on a motion to suppress evidence obtained as a result of a roving Border Patrol stop, must a court consider, as part of the totality of the … |
| 18-6310 | LeShawn Lawson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-activity due-process fourth-amendment investigative-questioning pretextual-stop prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | First, whether five minutes of drug-related investigative questioning of a driver at the beginning of an admittedly pretextual traffic stop, while no … |
| 18-437 | Dmitri I. Medvedev v. Henrico County | Virginia | 2018-10-05 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights driver's-license due-process dui fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), a police officer can briefly detain a person based on reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in crim… | |
| 18-6179 | Mario Govan Emmanuel v. Territory of the Virgin Islands | Virgin Islands | 2018-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment bolo-flyer collective-knowledge collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-doctrine fourth-amendment officer-discretion reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop terry-v-ohio united-states-v-hensley whiteley-v-warden | Does the collective knowledge or fellow officer doctrine eliminate the need for the BOLO-flyer "to articulate facts supporting a reasonable suspicion … |
| 18-6137 | Steven Doyle Burton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probation probation-search probation-searches reasonable-suspicion search search-condition standing | A. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches without reasonable suspicion. B. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches wit… |
| 18-339 | June Harper v. Arthur Leahy, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-procedure payton-standard payton-v-new-york probable-cause reasonable-suspicion | Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to have probable cause to believe that a suspect is present in a home before forcing entry into that… |
| 18-5987 | Ajohntae Hammond v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search | When deciding whether a police officer's fear for his safety justified a warrantless search of a person not suspected of any crime, may courts limit t… |
| 18-5973 | Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release | Question not identified. |
| 18-5874 | Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | As recently as 2014, this Court reemphasized that an informant's knowledge of a suspect's future movements may be indicative of some familiarity with … |
| 18-5682 | Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions | 1. Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? 2. Is the Fifth Circuit wrong t… |
| 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'… |
| 18-145 | Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… |
| 18-5267 | Arthur Waters v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment categorical-exception drug-distribution exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment in-home-arrest precedent protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Almost thirty years ago, this Court established the parameters of a protective sweep incident to an in-home arrest in Maryland v. Buie, 494 U.S. 325 (… |
| 18-48 | Minnesota v. Quentin Todd Chute | Minnesota | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk plain-view plain-view-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure | After Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), and Collins v. Virginia, 138 S.Ct. 1663 (2018), it is unclear - and there is a split in authority on - w… |
| 18-13 | Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas | Texas | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | The Court of Appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop. Once the purpose of the traffic stop c… |
| 18-5016 | George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop | DOES A POLICE OFFICER'S BELIEF THAT HE ALLEGEDLY HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION A MOTORIST DOES NOT HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE DIMINISH TO AN INCHOATE HUNCH OR… |