cell-phone-search
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-7500 | Ramon Carlos Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2025-06-25 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy-interest warrant-limitation | The Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement place any limitations on the search of a cell phone beyond requiring that a search warrant limits law… |
| 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… |
| 24-302 | Marcos Mendez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | border-search cell-phone-search electronic-privacy fourth-amendment suspicionless-search warrantless-search | 1. Whether the Government may conduct a warrantless search of the electronic contents of a person's cell phone at the border. 2. Whether the Governme… |
| 23-1355 | Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified "evidence" of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen… |
| 23-6990 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), the Court held that police officers must generally obtain a warrant before searching a cell phone seized … |
| 23A655 | Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Presumed Complete | cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5840 | Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search cell-phone-search cell-phones constitutional-rights customs-and-border-protection digital-privacy fourth-amendment search-and-seizure u.s-border warrantless-search | Whether, or under what circumstances, the Fourth Amendment permits customs officers to conduct a warrantless search of the digital contents of a perso… |
| 23A193 | Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Presumed Complete | border-search-doctrine cell-phone-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment riley-v-california warrant-requirement | Question not identified. | |
| 22-7098 | Rashid Turner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement | Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon… |
| 22-6900 | Tony Deng v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-search coercion confession-voluntariness deception-tactics due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-interrogation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy right-to-counsel will-overborne-standard | 1. Whether the "will overborne" standard or analysis, which requires the finding of Violence, or threats of Violence, dumbfounding a person's will, sh… |
| 22-486 | Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin | Texas | 2022-11-22 | Denied | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements | In Illinois v. Gates, this Court held that a warrant's issuance "cannot be a mere ratification of the bare conclusions of others," but also that "warr… | |
| 22-354 | Lorenzo Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing | The first question presented, on which the circuits are now divided, is whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement fro… |
| 22-236 | Jake J. McGovern v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception overbroad probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-scope | 1. Is a warrant to search a cell phone overbroad, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, if it authorizes the search of evidence on the phone in additi… |
| 22-5065 | O. L. v. Liliana Jara, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-search consent digital-duplication fourth-amendment possessory-interest privacy search-and-seizure seizure | When government officials seek to rely upon consent to justify the lawfulness of a search or seizure, the burden is on them to show by clear and posit… |
| 21-7654 | Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. | California | 2022-04-19 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review | (1) WHETHER THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT "DENIED" PETITIONER'S "REQUEST FOR REVIEW" ON THE SUMMARY DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S WRIT OF MANDAT… |
| 21-1099 | Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment? 2. Whether the search of Mr. Steres' cell ph… |
| 21-6788 | Bernard Lindsey v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity | 1. Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner Bernard Lindsey's home provided sufficient grounds, under the Fourth Amendment, to s… |
| 21-6164 | Julia Lagunas-Hernandez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof cell-phone-search constitutional-rights defense-counsel fair-trial jury marital-communication marital-communications prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy | 1. Whether the United States committed prosecutorial misconduct, depriving Petitioner of a fair trial when it shifted burden of proof by stating that … |
| 21-5902 | Alhakka Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements | I. In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court clarified Fourth Amendment protections for the contents of cell phones seized incident to a… |
| 20-7914 | Danny Ray Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure | During a custodial interrogation, a police detective asked for the password to Danny Williams' cell phone, which had been seized incident to Williams'… |
| 20-6445 | Cristofer Jose Gallegos-Espinal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-form forensic-search fourth-amendment government-surveillance perpetuity riley-precedent riley-v-california | Whether verbal consent to "look through" a cell phone, followed by written consent on an outmoded pre-Riley consent form, permits the government to pe… |
| 19-1327 | Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-06-01 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the "contents" of a cell phone for unspecified "… |
| 19-8069 | Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | 1. Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Co… |
| 19-7983 | Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-13 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | 1. Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Co… |
| 19-5414 | Arthur Whitley v. Texas | Texas | 2019-07-31 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent | Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel… |
| 18-8307 | Dockery Cleveland v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto | I. Because of the unique nature of a cell phone, the intrusion into the owner of the device will be ong oing as long as the device has the ability to … |
| 18-6918 | Samantha Christine Velazquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone-privacy cell-phone-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless, post-arrest cell phone search is permissible under the Fourth Amendment, simply because it takes place near the United States b… |
| 18-211 | Steven Morris Hurd v. California | California | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement | Whether this Court's 1970s search incident to arrest precedent involving physical objects applied to non-physical objects such as digital data prior t… |
| 18-5536 | Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants | The petition is an opportunity for this Court to clear up several issues related to search warrants on cell phones. The questions presented include: (… |
| 18-5306 | Ramiah Jefferson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | cell-phone cell-phone-search fourth-amendment gang-activity probable-cause riley-v-california search-warrant zurcher-v-stanford-daily | I. In this case, the district court denied Petitioner's pre-trial motion to suppress numerous photos and social media seized from his cell phone in an… |