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25-6565 Jaison L. Coleman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP consent-search fourth-amendment police-entry probable-cause scope-of-consent warrant-exception 1 Having already expressly denied consent for police to enter the residence, does the occupant's "okay" in response to the officer's statement that po…
25-6489 Jason William Dobbs v. Nevada Nevada 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP computer-privacy consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement third-party-consent warrantless-search 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to make sufficient inquiries as to the authority of a third person to consent to a warrantles…
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…
23-7350 Raul Zamora-Quinonos v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion consent-search exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment involuntary-consent law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search WHETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT VIOLATED THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATE…
23-6796 Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search v…
23-6191 In Re Colby Jerome Hale 2023-12-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation 8) What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an Appeal from the U.S. District Court. If you do exactly what the rule…
23-302 Bryce Watkins v. Brian Wunderlich, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived co-occupant-rights consent consent-search domestic-violence express-refusal fourth-amendment home-entry shared-dwelling warrantless-search In Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103, 120 (2006), this Court clearly established that "a warrantless search of a shared dwelling for evidence over the…
23-5477 James Thomas Butler, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search digital-evidence due-process forensic-extraction fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-privacy Under the Fourth Amendment, does consent to "take a look" at a suspect's smartphone outside of his residence at a table twenty feet away extend to a f…
23-5120 Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances WHETHER THE UNITED STATE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY APPLIED ITS TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ANALYSIS OF PETITIONER'S CHALLENGE TO THE…
22-6995 Matthew Patrick Langenberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent consent-search fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent search warrantless warrantless-search Whether an employer has "apparent authority" to consent to a complete search, including a forensic examination, of an employee's cell phone based upon…
22-6024 Orentha James Pea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search criminal-procedure fernandez-rule fernandez-v-california fourth-amendment physical-presence randolph-exception randolph-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search In Fernandez v. California, 571 U.S. 292, 306, 134 S. Ct. 1126, 1136, 188 L. Ed. 2d 25 (2014), this Court acknowledged that, if "Randolph requires pre…
21-6646 Pedro Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime I. WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111(a) AND (b) QUALIF…
21-6628 Frank McNabb v. Texas Texas 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search consent-to-search detention-extension fishing-expedition fourth-amendment official-coercion retroactive-forgiveness traffic-stop warrant-exception During a traffic stop, CONSENT TO SEARCH is the exception to the 4th Amendment Warrant Rule; Is it also retroactive forgiveness for any and all violat…
21-6558 Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP apparent-authority consent consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-belief residence search warrant-requirement Does the apparent authority exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit a police officer to reasonably believe a seventeen-year-old…
21-6290 George Steven Burch v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search data-retention digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure smartphone-data warrantless-search After the government obtains consent to search specific information on an individual's smart phone, whether or to what extent the Fourth Amendment tol…
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'…
20-5099 Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop I. Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in affirming the District Court's denial of Lantrel Wilson's Motion to Suppress conflict…
19-7507 Tommy Gurule v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search?
19-6233 Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness The questions important to this case are: I. Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his right…
19-5429 Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances In the context of the Fourth Amendment, this Court has characterized the voluntariness of consent to a search as "a question of fact to be determined …
18-9708 Brad Smith v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois consent-search consent-to-search curtilage exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause This case involves the attenuation doctrine set forth in Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. 590 (1975), in the context of consent to search given following a…
18-9434 Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search Whether the trial and appellate court erred when it adjudged that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warran…
18-764 Oscar Henry Steinmetz v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights consent consent-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure 1. Does the law regarding searches, seizures, and consent need clarification for proper guidance and application? 2. Should a law enforcement officer…
18-6994 Cleveland McDowell Meador, IV v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent-search consent-to-search felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-search police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure supervision supervision-of-search withdrawal-consent withdrawal-of-consent Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they obtain consent to search a person's home, then keep that person outside the home, preve…
18-5643 Nathan Craft v. Willie Bonds, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search fourth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant schneckloth-v-bustamonte stone-v-powell When pro-se litigant's 4th amendment consent search claim is misunderstood and misstated, can Stone v. Powell 428 U.S. 465,494 (1976) standard of ille…
18-5223 Gerand Earl Ratcliff v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights deferential-review due-process fact-finding schneckloth-v-bustamonte standard-of-review voluntariness-standard Is the voluntariness of consent to search a question of fact that is subject to the same deferential review as findings of historical fact?