confidential-informant
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6694 | Donny Ray Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant | 1. Whether the "materiality " prong of Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), is satisfied when a search warrant affidavit recklessly omits a confid… |
| 25-6366 | Jarrett Howard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure fentanyl heroin probable-cause search-warrant | I. Did probable cause exist to issue a search warrant when the affidavit for the warrant did not say when the confidential informant saw heroin and fe… |
| 25A221 | Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Presumed Complete | confidential-informant criminal-discovery electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-surveillance | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5524 | Kenneth W. Blair v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confidential-informant judicial-discretion motion-to-compel standard-of-review supervisory-authority | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN OVERRULING BLAIR'S MOTION TO COMPEL THE DISCLOSURE OF THE… |
| 24-5220 | Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Isa prejudicial joinder concerning unrelated counts a fundamental violation of One's constitutional right to a fair trial, if the facts of one inci… |
| 23-7564 | Ricky T. Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit | 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou… |
| 23-7359 | Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | IFP | confidential-informant constitutional-rights due-process prison-management retaliation rule-50 state-actor transcript | 1. Can a prison confidential informant be described in all fairness as a state actor for retaliation when it resulted from the exercise of a right or … |
| 23-6095 | Jerome McGoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confidential-informant controlled-buy criminal-procedure drug-investigation due-process law-enforcement search-and-seizure undercover-operation | Is it not true that Arkansas state was not authorized to use the Confidential Informant (CI) Robert Sullivan a.k.a. Smokey G. in an undercover operati… |
| 23-398 | Henry H. Howe v. Steven Gilpin, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | confidential-informant criminal-investigation dishonesty-and-false-statement law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard rule-609 warrant-affidavit | Whether complete omission from an arrest warrant of a primary confidential informant's multiple prior Rule 609 [F.R.Evid.] "dishonesty and false state… |
| 23-5314 | Joe Crawford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states | WHETHER IN LIGHT OF Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 204 L.Ed.2d (2019), WAS THE EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN THE GOVERN… |
| 22-6427 | Denver Sangster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-vs-maryland confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | There has been more than enough cases in the last few decades, where search warrants that lack probable cause has been accepted by all the lower Unite… |
| 22-5455 | Tyrone Woolaston v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct government-misconduct manufactured-venue venue venue-manipulation | Whether manufactured venue is a valid criminal defense that a defendant is entitled to present to a jury when it is undisputed that the Government tra… |
| 22-5022 | Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity | 1. When probable cause in support of a search warrant is based on the word of a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establ… |
| 21-7685 | Carlos Delgado, aka Los v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard roviaro-v-united-states search-and-seizure warrant-affidavit | Did the DEA task force agent act with reckless disregard for the truth when omitting material information that militated against a finding of probable… |
| 21-7597 | Clifford Idris Bell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-residence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the issuance of a warrant and the subsequent search of a personal residence based solely on a confidential info… |
| 21-7104 | Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing | 1. ) Did the court err in it's HECK BARR determination? 2. ) Did the magistrate rely on fraudulent, fabricated and uncorr oborated evidence? 3. ) W… |
| 21-5211 | Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing | 1. Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense? 2. Where multiple additional errors affected petitioner's convicti… |
| 20-5956 | Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review | Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the… |
| 20-5793 | Francisco Zendejas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-defendant disclosure disclosure-motion due-process-rights in-camera-hearing roviaro-standard roviaro-v-united-states threshold-showing | When a criminal defendant moves to disclose the identity of a confidential informant under Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53 (1957), and makes a t… |
| 20-350 | Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia | 1. Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell … |
| 20-5186 | John Edward Butler v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-investigation dna-evidence due-process excessive-force law-enforcement trial-procedure | Question not identified. |
| 19-8267 | Jon Cascella v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation confidential-informant constitutional-error due-process fifth-amendment independent-inquiry testimony uniform-practice witness-testimony | 1. Whether permitting a blanket claim of Fifth Amendment privilege and total exclusion of a confidential informant's testimony without independent inq… |
| 19-7241 | William Gene Cox, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-assault civil-rights confidential-informant confidential-informants constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search | Should law enforcement be allowed to utilize armed assaults by confidential informants as pretext for circumventing the Fourth Amendment guarantee aga… |
| 19-7228 | Jerry Carter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by "We also find no abuse of discretion in entering the decision the admission, with a limiting ins… |
| 19-6990 | King Bush v. Kannika Say | Michigan | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure | I want to void marrdige based on immig vation fraud? Kannika say shewas married to heruncle during the time she was living withme 8127/2oob, wasmy mar… |
| 19-6837 | Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony | I. WHETHER THE STATE OF DELAWARE CAN WITHOLD EXCUIPATORY EVIDENCE RELATING TO THE STATES OFFICE OF MEDICAL EXATMINERS OFFICIALS i STEALING DRUG EVIDEN… |
| 19-6241 | Elfred William Petruk v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant confidential-informants drug-evidence eighth-circuit fourth-amendment gps-tracking gps-tracking-warrants illinois-v-gates probable-cause search-warrant stale-information | Did the Eighth Circuit erroneously rule, in conflict with this Court's decision in Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 (1983), that the search warrant for… |
| 19-5806 | John Bradham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process evidence evidence-admission sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRONEOUS ADMISSION OF A VIDEO OF AN ALLEGED DRUG AND FIREARM TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE CI AND THE DEFENDANT VIOLATED THE C… |
| 19-5176 | Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing | Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem… |
| 19-5015 | Michael D. Kelley v. Colette S. Peters, in Her Individual Capacity, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-segregation confidential-informant due-process ninth-circuit-standard prison-administration prison-administrative-hearing prison-hearing some-evidence some-evidence-standard standing superintendent-v-hill | (1) Whether the "some evidence " standard announced in Superintendent v. Hill, 472 US 445 (1985), is satisfied in a prison administrative hearing se… |
| 18-9748 | George Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea | GIVEN GOVERNMENT DISCOVERY DISCLOSURE PRACTICES RELATING TO ITS USE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS, DOES THE "FAIR AND JUST REASON" STANDARD FOR WITHDRAWA… |
| 18-9301 | Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use | Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that that confidential informant purc… |
| 18-8861 | Allen Louis Dorsey, Sr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-documents charging-information confidential-informant confidential-informants controlled-substances criminal-procedure discovery double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-discretion substance-sale | 1. Can a citizen be convicted of the uncharged crime of selling a Controlled Substance to Police Confidential Informant (C. I. #884902), but be charge… |
| 18-8500 | Nickey Ardd v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement | Consistent with this Court's decision in Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. at 60-61 (1963). When the disclosure of the name of confidential informant… |
| 18-8218 | Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression | Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v… |
| 18-7842 | Brian Michael Burton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | emotional and physical dominion and control over 5th-amendment confidential-informant downward-departure due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement psychological-control sentencing statutory-minimum-sentence | Whether a downward departure from a statutory minimum sentence is warranted when the abusive tactics of the Government acting in concert with a Confid… |
| 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… |
| 18-863 | Tralvis Edmond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence | Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch… |
| 18-7151 | Curtis John Mulhern v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-enterprise due-process entrapment law-enforcement outrageous-conduct outrageous-government-conduct probable-cause reverse-sting | Did law enforcement conduct become constitutionally unacceptable where government agents and their confidential informant essentially, engineered and … |
| 18-6094 | Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa | Under Brady v. Maryland, is the prosecution and the DEA required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA … |
| 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 … |
| 18-5587 | Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment | Petitioner, BOBBY JOE Rosa, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm after the Government executed a search warrant at his purported … |
| 18-99 | Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search | (1) Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was "unreasonable" under the Fourth Amendment? (2) In the alternative, did the Fi… |