good-faith-exception
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6310 | Miguel Rafael Rayos, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bare-bones-affidavit circuit-split exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | I. In United States v. Leon, this Court announced a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. 468 U.S. 897, 922-23 (1984). "[T]he marginal or non… |
| 25-5858 | Robert Peck, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | exclusionary-rule felon-in-possession fourth-amendment good-faith-exception marijuana-conviction second-amendment | Does 18 U. S. C. §922(g)(l) violate the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm based… |
| 25-5413 | Raymond Ronald Jennings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment good-faith-exception informant-credibility probable-cause reckless-disregard search-warrant | Did the officer omit from his probable cause affidavit information concerning the two informant's credibility that could infer reckless disregard for … |
| 24A933 | Jamarr Smith, Thomas Iroko Ayodele, and Gilbert McThunel, II v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-28 | Presumed Complete | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant good-faith-exception location-history-data particularity-requirement | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6790 | Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit | 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the good faith exception applies to t… |
| 24-988 | Jorge Vasquez v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. | California | 2025-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Can law enforcement's failure to state any facts whatsoever to establish probable cause to believe that there was evidence of a crime or contraband at… |
| 24-6412 | Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception wiretap-order | WHETHER THE "GOOD FAITH EXCEPTION" TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT EXCLUSIONARY RULE OF UNITED STATES VS. LEON, 468 U.S. 897 (1987), APPLIES TO TITLE III WIRE… |
| 24-5890 | Ushery Stewart v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the search of a person's residence based solely on that person's status as a known drug dealer. 2. Whether Le… |
| 24-5870 | Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidence-collection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement warrantless-arrest | Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule, articulated by this Court in United States v. Leon in the context of a law enforcement offi… |
| 24-5702 | James Robert Bailey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure district-court good-faith-exception legal-error void-ab-initio warrant-validity | Whether the district erred by applying the good-faith exception to a warrant that was void ab initio? |
| 24-5513 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith franks-hearing good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant | 1. May a search warrant affiant take advantage of the Good Faith Exception under Leon when he or she lacks subjective good faith when submitting an af… |
| 24-198 | Michigan v. Floyd Russell Galloway, Jr. | Michigan | 2024-08-22 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | deterrence-doctrine evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception police-misconduct prosecutorial-responsibility | 1. Is exclusion of reliable, probative evidence of guilt warranted to deter a n outside officer's misconduct where there are other deterrents that do … |
| 24-5335 | Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant | A WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAROSA IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U… |
| 24-5074 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression | Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule? |
| 23-7636 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sworn-testimony warrant-affidavit | 1. Does the Leon good-faith exception apply to salvage a barebones affidavit where at an evidentiary hearing conducted to establish a record of sworn … |
| 23-1242 | Taurean Jerome Weber v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | digital-property digital-trespass exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-intrusion search terms-of-service trespass warrantless-search | 1. Did the Court of Appeals err when it determined Instagram's boilerplate Terms of Service delineated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights and held n… |
| 23A1041 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Presumed Complete | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception material-misrepresentation probable-cause search-warrant | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7416 | Christopher J. Pratt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review | 1) Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), w… |
| 23-7321 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-defect warrant-requirement | Before government agents can search a private home, the Fourth Amendment generally requires them to obtain a warrant supported by probable cause. Here… |
| 23-7121 | Basilio Hernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | docket-procedure docket-sheet exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement | Did the court err in finding that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applied? Should the docket sheet reflect all pleadings filed in a… |
| 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 … |
| 23-6609 | Kevin McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cloud-search electronic-media exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity probable-cause search-warrant | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule can save a cloud search warrant unsupported by probable cause and devoid of particularity. |
| 23A676 | Kevin McCall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Question not identified. | |
| 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. | |
| 23-6193 | Steven Vincent Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-material criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity warrantless-search | Does the determination that a warrant is void ab initio, rendering the resultant search of the Petitioner's residence warrantless (and thus unreasonab… |
| 23-6045 | Perry Wayne Suggs, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment general-warrant good-faith-exception home-search particularity-requirement search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | When a warrant plainly violates the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement by authorizing an unbridled, general search of a home, does the good-… |
| 23-6006 | Delando Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-exception nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause residential-search search-warrant | 1. Whether an application for a warrant to search a home for drugs must contain objective evidence of a nexus between the evidence sought and the resi… |
| 23-5826 | Mary Ann German v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity | After a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, do the police get a grace period after this Court's … |
| 22-7781 | Donell Jamar Hines v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment curtilage fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jardines-precedent k9-sniff search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | 1. Whether the Leon good faith exception should allow admission of evidence obtained as a result of two unconstitutional searches, in violation of Jar… |
| 22-7401 | Brandon Quane Hudson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magisterial-review magistrate-review probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | In this case, police executed a search warrant at a person's home based solely on the fact that said person was involved in the sale of drugs, when ot… |
| 22-7097 | Monta Olander Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception gps-tracking leon-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether The Court Of Appeals Misapplied United States v. Leon , 468 U.S. 897 (1984) When It Affirmed The District Court's Refusal To Suppress All Evid… |
| 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… |
| 22-6427 | 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… |
| 22-6430 | Alex Bugno v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-12-30 | Denied | IFP | evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure | (I) Are Search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring su… |
| 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… |
| 22-5508 | Hanford Chiu v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections. Wh… |
| 22-85 | Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris | Oregon | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegatio… |
| 21-7699 | Eugene Nicholson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Question not identified. |
| 21-7431 | William Nobles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war… |
| 21-7004 | Adam L. Ware v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-deficiency civil-procedure deterrence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception recurring-negligence standing systemic-negligence | 1. Should certiorari be granted on a petitioner's claim that the deterrent purpose of the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule does not perform its inte… |
| 21-921 | Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2021-12-22 | Denied | administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable when the government collects massive digital… | |
| 21-6682 | Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | WHOLLY LACKING IN PROBABLE CAUSE SHOULD A REVIEWING COURT IGNORE THE FOURTH AMENDMENT ANALYSIS AND GO DIRECTLY TO A GOOD FAITH ANALYSIS PURSUANT TO UN… |
| 21-6394 | Kyle S. Matthews v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment good-faith-exception indicia-of-probable-cause probable-cause prosecutor-involvement search-and-seizure | A police officer may rely on an invalid search warrant if he acts with objective good faith, but not when the warrant lacks an indicia of probable cau… |
| 21-6364 | Kenneth R. Friend v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2518 authorization-defect dahda-v-united-states deputy-assistant-attorney-general deputy-attorney-general fourth-amendment good-faith-exception warrant-requirement wiretap-statute | Does the good faith exception to the warrant requirement established in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), apply to warrants issued in violat… |
| 21-752 | Rex Hammond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception real-time-tracking search warrant-requirement wireless-carrier | 1. In Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2206 (2018), the Court held that the government's use of an individual's historical "cell site location i… |
| 21-5265 | Terry Reed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement | Whether the good faith exception to the warrant requirement extends so far as to excuse an officer's reliance upon an affidavit he drafted with the on… |
| 20-7459 | Herman Rosario v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception independent-determination motion-to-suppress physical-evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-application | 1. Whether the district court err ed in denying defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence seized at1611 S. 28th Street, Philadelphia, where t… |
| 20-6990 | Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing | 1. Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI? 2. Whether a state's proffer of nondiscriminatory reaso… |
| 20-6771 | Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application | Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search of Petitioner's residence on the b… |
| 20-6733 | John Christopher Ferguson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit | 1. Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment applies where law enforcement officials knew or should have kn… |
| 20-6444 | Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-11-27 | Denied | IFP | cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement | In a pre-Carpenter v. United States case, did the state appellate court err in extending the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requ… |
| 20-526 | Jason M. Blackburn v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer? |
| 20-5942 | John Tran v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction procedural-error rule-41 search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity | 1. Whether the First Circuit erroneously applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule where the government violated Fed. R. Crim. P. 41 i… |
| 20-5776 | Joel Thomas Augard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution | (1) Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit? (2) Whether the good-faith excepti… |
| 20-5749 | Elijah Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu… |
| 20-5494 | Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review | Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability… |
| 20-5431 | Walter Ackerman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-of-the-case waiver warrantless-search | I. Did the Tenth Circuit err under the law of the case doctrine when it permitted the government to raise in a second appeal a claim the government wa… |
| 20-5339 | Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | 1) Whether, in cases wherein a statute requires judicial approval before law enforcement may conduct a search, the reviewing court, before determining… |
| 20-5303 | Lawrence A. Dibble v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-review law-enforcement magistrate oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant | In considering whether a search warrant affidavit is so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely un… |
| 19-8926 | Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review | I. Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in holding that the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States, 468 U.S. 897, 104 S. … |
| 19-1454 | Naray Palaniappan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | computer-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-particularity-requirement good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation particularity-requirement search-warrant warrant-application warrant-incorporation | 1. Where a warrant application requested authorization to search computers "wherever located" but the warrant itself (1) stated that the application w… |
| 19-1423 | George Vortman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity | Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init… |
| 19-8654 | Richard Senese, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii article-three due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent panel-rule stare-decisis | I. Rather than applying this Court's precedents, the Eleventh Circuit held that its "prior panel rule" precluded it from reaching appellant's argument… |
| 19-1027 | David Caswell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant | I) Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was loc… |
| 19-7682 | Eric Beverly v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application | Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it… |
| 19-7581 | James Ryan Taylor and Steven Vincent Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geographic-scope good-faith-exception misrepresentation search-warrant | Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to evidence seized under an invalid warrant if agents knowingly misrepresented the fact t… |
| 19-7173 | Kenneth Rose v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression | 1) Reasonable jurists would debate that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exceptio… |
| 19-7053 | Jason Dean Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity | Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers… |
| 19-6095 | Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement | Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva… |
| 19-6008 | David W. Tippens v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity | Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init… |
| 19-5909 | Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida | Florida | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search | Whether the "good faith" exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment. |
| 19-5782 | Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory | I. Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole a… |
| 19-5795 | Jacob D. Lickers v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant | WHETHER THE GOOD FAITH EXCEPTION TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE APPLIES WHEN AN AFFIDAVIT SUPPORTING A SEARCH WARRANT HAD BEEN TAINTED BY EVIDENCE OBTAINED … |
| 19-5676 | Jerel Leon Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment giglio-impeachment giglio-v-united-states good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | I. Whether a district court reviewing a motion to suppress evidence obtained pursuant to a defective search warrant may consider evidence outside the … |
| 19-5444 | Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity | 1. When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply? 2. Does a Network Investigative Technique (NIT) wa… |
| 19-5396 | Vincent Anzalone v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application | 1. Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically inapplicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Crimina… |
| 19-5357 | Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction | When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t… |
| 19-5339 | James Kenneth Ganzer, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-authority magistrate-judge search-warrant void-ab-initio | Can the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that was void ab initio, and therefore without lega… |
| 19-5283 | Kyle Jason Korte v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law | 1. Does the "good faith exception" outlined in Illinois v. Krull 480 U.S. 340 (1987) extend to circumstances where the statute, rather than being "sub… |
| 18-9631 | Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin | whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l… |
| 18-9259 | Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit | May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning, as the Tenth Circuit did in … |
| 18-9037 | Rolander Brown v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act | Whether the "good faith exception" to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act W… |
| 18-1344 | LaMarcus Thomas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application | Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, as the Ninth Circuit, Colo… | |
| 18-8694 | Bryan Gilbert Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception law-enforcement search-warrant systemic-misconduct systemic-mistake united-states-v-leon | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule of United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) applies when law enforcement makes an obvious,… |
| 18-8668 | Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-04-02 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law | 1. Was COA17-1 134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? COA Decision never addressed "good faith exception" issue state vs fed with a… |
| 18-1248 | Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity | This Court has applied the U.S. v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) good faith exception in a variety of cases to include a knock and announce violation (Hud… |
| 18-8518 | John Moses Burton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | QUESTION (1): When and how should the courts be bound to the presedent set by the high Court's opinion? QUESTION (2): Is it time to re-evaluate the l… |
| 18-1219 | Illinois v. Derrick Bonilla | Illinois | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Amici (1) | apartment apartment-building apartment-search common-area dog-sniff drug-detection-dog exclusionary-rule florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search search-and-seizure | 1. Whether a sniff by a drug-detection dog conducted in the common area of an apartment building is a Fourth Amendment search under Florida v. Jardine… |
| 18-8202 | Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search | I. Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when t… |
| 18-7711 | Christopher Fitzgerald v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-affidavit | Does the "good faith" exception to the ex clusionary rule apply to uphold a search of a residence, where there is no nexus between the residence and a… |
| 18-900 | Philip Zodhiates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure good-faith-exception international-parental-kidnapping probable-cause warrant-requirement | 1. Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule allow use at trial of CSLI illegally seized by a prosecutor prior to this Court's decision i… |
| 18-7184 | Antione Chambers, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Twizzie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrantless-search | Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies to an application by an Assistant United States Attorney, and not a… |
| 18-7134 | Lindsey Brooke Lowe v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bouie-v-city-of-columbia criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception judicial-decision-making retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee | Whether the limitations on ex post facto judicial decision-making that this Court recognized in Bouie v. City of Columbia and Rogers v. Tennessee, and… |
| 18-6905 | Thomas Thadeus Szczerba v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | IFP | affidavit-incorporation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception incorporation-of-affidavit search-and-seizure warrant-incorporation warrant-particularity warrant-particularization | I. Does the Leon "good -faith exception" to the exclusionary rule apply when a warrant fails to particularize the "things to be seized" and fails to c… |
| 18-6702 | Brandon Gale Combs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | I. Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate … |
| 18-6431 | Justin Jenkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search | L. WHETHER REVIEW IS WARRANTED BECAUSE THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN REFUSING TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE AND FRUITS OF THE ILLEGAL SEARCHES OF RESIDENCES AT … |
| 18-6116 | Anthony Allen Jean v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity | I. Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule announced by this Court in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), be applied in cases in… |
| 18-5630 | Hunter Vaughan Eure v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity-requirement remote-computer-searches remote-search search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-particularity | Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 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 … |
| 18-5536 | 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: (… |
| 18-5526 | Michael P. Lough v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5508 | Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 18-5414 | Keith William Deichert v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio | Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant… |
| 18-5368 | Gabriel Werdene v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity | I. Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jur… |
| 18-5279 | Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity | 1. Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment was grossly negligent, thereby preclud… |
| 18-5004 | Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in overruling the District Court's decision to suppress evidence obtained by police officers when they sniffed the … |