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25-6312 Fred Baskin v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search I. Whether the Fourt h Amendment is violated and requires suppression of evidence, when the police conduct a warrantless search of the arrestee's ba…
24-172 Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response Waived arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide ide…
23-6678 In Re Tina Wagoner 2024-02-06 Denied IFP arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence probable-cause Are the elements of the crimes charged justified by the facts presented in the above-stated evidence? If prosecutorial discretion constitutes the abi…
23-6448 Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Texas DPS Troopers stopped Stephen Brunson because his license plate was expired. They had planned, due to a tip they received, to ask for consent to …
23-556 Ramey & Schwaller, L.L.P. v. Zions Bancorporation NA, dba Amegy Bank Fifth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response Waived arrest criminal-law due-process formal-charge indictment united-states-v-marion 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit misconstrues Texas criminal law by equating an arrest without indictment as a formal charge for a felony regardless that …
23-541 Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan Tenth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S.…
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 …
22-1025 Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Judgment Issued Amici (23)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) arrest circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech government-record probable-cause qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest standing 1. Whether the Nieves probable cause exception can be satisfied by objective evidence other than specific examples of arrests that never happened. 2.…
22-6461 Segundo Marcial Dominguez-Caicedo and Adrian Andres Cortez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP arrest arrest-delay criminal-procedure due-process high-seas judicial-proceedings magistrate-review speedy-trial transportation transportation-time unnecessary-delay Upon an arrest on the high seas, is the additional delay resulting from transportation to the district the Government chooses to prosecute a factor th…
22-5931 Anthony Michael D'Amico v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror juror-observation sixth-amendment witness witness-arrest Whether a person's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial is violated when a juror witnesses a critical defense witness arrested outside the courtroom …
21-8094 In Re Marcus O'Neal Jenkins 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest booked-on-charges civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process sixth-amendment speedy-trial (l) Did the action taken on April 20, 2010 at BCDC, constitute an arrest for purposes of determining whether Marcus O'Neal Jenkins ' (Jenkins ') 6th a…
21-1190 Ramon Rios, III v. Texas Texas 2022-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search I. Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of the interior of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home tha…
21-6911 Stanley Aron Cavienss v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights due-process property-rights search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
20-919 Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest…
20-6728 Jarvis O'Neil Adams v. Georgia Office of the Governor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure law-enforcement narcotics officer-opinion probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure 1. Whether probable cause pursuant to the 4th Amendment can be established solely upon an officer's opinion of smelling narcotics. 2. Whether seizure…
20-6580 Joseph W. Peeples, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure travel warrantless-search Does the long standing commitment on U.S. Constitution Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to right with Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 3, 5, 5.1, 7,…
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…
20-283 Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) 4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity Officer Austin Bass ("Officer Bass") responded to a burglar alarm and found Patrick Greve ("Greve") outside a locked and closed nightclub, wrapped in …
20-5519 Richard Wanke v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest arrest-initiation conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecution prosecutorial-delay public-defender speedy-trial APPELLATE DISTRICT COURTS IN ILLINOIS ARE SPLIT ON HOW AN ARREST INITIATES PROSECUTION OR WHETHER IT DOES AT ALL. ARE THERE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE A PERS…
20-5273 Andrew Hargett, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure I. Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule required suppression of evidence obtained as a result of Mr. Hargett's arrest.
19-8014 Michael Artis v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution requires that evidence be suppressed where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two p…
19-7419 Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing Question not identified.
19-7213 Rodney Banks v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure I AM ReQUesTinG FoR ReVIeW THAT -ARRESTING OFFICER DId NOT ReAd ME my MIRAnDA RIGHTS. AUd THE JURY GOT THE WRonG eviden ce foR DelibeRATiON.
19-7171 Samuel Turner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power 1.) Whether, the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? 2.) Whether the lower courts erred in denying and upholding the denial of …
19-6585 Gelu Topa v. Almonte Kerbs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct probable-cause public-defender subpoena video-evidence Why in ARREST/NOTICE TO APPEAR page nr. 1 they do not have a video with me if I committed an offense on location Fowler/Colonial Ave Ft. Myers, FL 33…
19-6484 In Re John Harry Steele 2019-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment arrest constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-statute due-process procedural-fairness prosecution unfairness 1) Was the Petitioner denied due process of law,in Wolation of the 14 Amendment toy The circumstance thal the feditiones conviction was affirmed vnle…
19-289 County of San Diego, California, et al. v. James Soler Ninth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights due-process extradition-warrant fourteenth-amendment jail-staff mistaken-identity procedural-due-process qualified-immunity When a prisoner is held under authority of a facially valid warrant, do individual jail staff members have a duty under the Fourteenth Amendment to in…
19-188 Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton A search of a medical clinic pursuant to an administrative search warrant that resulted in the doctor being detained for three to four hours under cir…
18-9606 Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia Virginia 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination The Court of Appeals erred in finding that the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized when he was arrested…
18-8943 David Raphael Concepcion v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure WHETHER THE HOLDING OF THIS COURT IN MARYLAND v. BUIE, 494 U.S. 325, 110 S.Ct. 1093 (1990), TO PROTECTIVE SWEEPS APPLIES ALSO INCIDENT TO ARRESTS MADE…
18-8626 Aaron Murray v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process federal-criminal-procedure initial-appearance magistrate-judge plea-bargaining plea-hearing right-to-counsel Was Petitioner Aaron Murray Entiteled to an initial apperanc.e. before a United States Magistrate Judge under Fed. R. Criminal P Rule 5? How was Peti…
18-7324 Roberto Gil v. Florida Florida 2019-01-09 Denied IFP arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police - earning twenty percent only in the event of arrest, forfeiture, and favora…
18-7148 Austin Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest custody custody-rights detainer habeas-corpus implied-consent interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction prisoner-transfer speedy-trial 1. Is the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD") triggered when a prisoner in custody is arrested by another jurisdiction? 2. When there is no evi…
18-7156 Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio This Court has held, in several traffic stop cases, that investigatory stops based on probable cause can violate the Fourth Amendment in scope and dur…
18-6540 Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia Georgia 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation The questions presented by this petition is Under The Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments rules is one of great concern, gravity, and public importance a…
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 …
18-5440 Larenzo Lomax v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied IFP arrest arrest-legality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether Lomax was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to challenge the legality of Lomaxs arrest. Whether Lomax…