evidence-seizure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7005 Alsham M. Laster v. Indiana Indiana 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search Whether the warrantless seizure of Alsham Laster's phone, during a murder investigation, violated the Fourth Amendment when: (i) police did not have p…
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…
23-802 William Bembury v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-01-25 Denied Amici (2) backpack criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment luggage probable-cause purse search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement Does the exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest permit a warrantless search of a backpack, purse, lug…
23-6496 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure evidence-seizure prejudice pretrial-detention right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-evidence work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege While Petitioner Irvin Johnson was in jail awaiting trial for murder, he reviewed the police affidavit from his arrest, taking notes on questions and …
23-6085 Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO? B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E…
21-7641 Jose Diaz Perez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure intoxication-statements search-warrant 1) Did the State of Texas and theU.S. District Court improperly hold that the trial court properly admitted into evidence a personal writing by the …
21-5228 Dwayne Sheckles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing evidence-seizure home-invasion probable-cause residential-searches search-warrant search-warrants Search warrants are directed at places, not people. To obtain a warrant to enter a person's home, there must be probable cause that evidence of a crim…
20-1445 Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas Texas 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived affidavit computer-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure surveillance-equipment warrant-application Whether the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals constitutes an unreasonable application of this Court's clearly established precedent, by …
20-7154 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-seizure government-surveillance judicial-misconduct mental-health privacy racial-discrimination sentencing veterans-rights Question not identified.
20-7080 Jimmy Lloyd Alexander v. California California 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
19-6469 Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana Indiana 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment Whether trial courts abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice, and sole defense witness to testify at trial for the defense violated …
18-9788 Sarah Denise Cardwell v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search evidence-seizure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina erred in applying a standard of "more likely than not" in concluding under the Fourth Amendment's plain…
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…