automobile-exception
17 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6024 | Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | 1) Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police, not acting in coordination with federal authorities bu… |
| 23-1114 | Charles R. Hays v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | automobile-exception contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether law enforcement has probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception to search a driver's vehicle based on a passenger's perso… |
| 23-5305 | John Vaughn v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception commercial-trains confrontation-clause fourth-amendment plain-smell-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant-requirement | 1) Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment apply to commercial trains? 2) Is there a plain smell exception t… |
| 22-6293 | Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay | 1. Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle, which had in plain view only innocuous… |
| 21-7577 | Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida | Florida | 2022-04-08 | Denied | IFP | automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure | Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic… |
| 21-6899 | John B. Alberts v. Grady Perry, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception container criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laptop-computer laptop-evidence private-property search-and-seizure | Whether Trial Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Computer Evidence on the Ground that a Search Pursuant to the Automobile Excepti… |
| 21-6175 | Shaun Short v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure disabled-car franks-hearing parked-car probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement extend to a parked and disabled car, or is it limited to its original justifications? Is a d… |
| 20-8167 | Bryan Keith Miller v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception field-testing plain-view probable-cause search-and-seizure | 1. Did an officer have probable cause to retrieve and field test a loose substance observed in Mr. Miller's vehicle, under the plain view exception to… |
| 20-6968 | Kenton Lance Light v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-28 | Denied | IFP | abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence tha… |
| 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… |
| 20-5215 | Jessica Lang v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger passenger-rights probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search a passenger's purse, while on her lap, inside an automobile where probable cause… |
| 19-1429 | David Pena, III v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-26 | Denied | 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure | 1. Whether Texas' Third Court of Appeals Erred by Finding that the Items Found in the Trunk of Petitioner's Car Did Not Constitute Fruit of the Poison… | |
| 19-8318 | William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat… |
| 19-7950 | Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search | 1) Did the warrantless search of an automobile pursuant to the automobile exception become unreasonable when police officers expanded the search beyon… |
| 19-7610 | Luciano Camberos-Villapuda v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception collins-v-virginia curtilage Due-Process exigent-circumstances Expectation-of-Privacy fourth-amendment payton-v-new-york probable-cause Warrantless-Entry warrantless-search | Does "exigent circumstances" needs justification when officers conducted a warrantless entry onto the curtilage unlawfully? And whether a warrantless … |
| 18-8186 | Kirby Gant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read… |
| 18-430 | Rashaud Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether, In The Context Of An Automobile Search, Dwellers In Multi-Family Homes Have A Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy In The Areas Surrounding Thei… |