inevitable-discovery
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6455 | Mark Bolling v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment impeachable-fact inevitable-discovery nix-standard search-and-seizure | Whether the presence of impeachable fact is required under Nix before an inevitable discovery analysis can be allowed in the context of a Fourth Amend… |
| 25-5499 | Timothy Alexander v. New York | New York | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct | 1. Can inevitable discovery, as set forth by This Court in Nix V. Williams, be proven through the testimony of a detective not actively involved in … |
| 24-6511 | Ian Mitcham v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure dna-profile fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure | For nearly four decades, courts have grappled with interpreting the inevitable discovery doctrine. Some courts, including the Second, Fifth, Eighth, a… |
| 24-6023 | Leonardo Terrazas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure | Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the inevitable discovery doctrine—based on its assumption that officers would have discovered the same evid… |
| 23-7323 | Damon Todd Carey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule expert-testimony fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine independent-source inevitable-discovery probable-cause warrant-requirement | 1. The district court concluded that since illegally obtained evidence found in Petitioners vehicle, was admissible due to'lthe application of the "… |
| 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… |
| 23A831 | Bentley Streett v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement | Whether and how the inevitable-discovery doctrine applies to a defective warrant. | |
| 23-6715 | Re'Shaun Lamonte Wilborne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause search-and-seizure | The police violated the Fourth Amendment when they searched Wilborne's backpack and recovered a firearm that formed the basis of the indictment filed … |
| 23-6448 | Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Texas DPS Troopers stopped Stephen Brunson because his license plate was expired. They had planned, due to a tip they received, to ask for consent to … |
| 23-6034 | Alfredo Sanchez Barboza v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment contraband exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause standardized-protocol subjective-motivation | Whether, upon application of the inevitable discovery doctrine, a hypothetical search pursuant to the inventory search exception to the Fourth Amendme… |
| 22-7629 | Jose Luis Nunez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | 1. Whether police may enter and perform a "protective sweep" of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sug… |
| 22-5858 | Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause | Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the … |
| 21-7277 | Sadeen Jones v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-03-04 | Denied | IFP | carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery initial-illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | A. Is this matter so identical to Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2206 (2018) that like that case, this Petition for WRIT OF CERTIORARI should … |
| 21-6487 | Lisa Marie Cano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-of-appeal court-of-appeals evidence historical-facts inevitable-discovery investigating-officer investigation verification | Whether a court of appeal's inference regarding the future course of an investigation, unsupported by testimony from the investigating officer or by e… |
| 20-8014 | Kelvin Baez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement | Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search, wh… |
| 20-7651 | Gonzalo Curiel v. California | California | 2021-04-02 | Denied | IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | 1. In order the apply the "inevitable discovery rule" to uphold an otherwise illegal search and seizure is it necessary for the prosecution to prove t… |
| 20-7416 | James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights when they searched him during a traffic stop had probable cause to arrest the … |
| 20-7098 | Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure | Whether, in conflict with the holdings of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Eighth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits and several State court… |
| 20-6753 | Andre Martel Winn v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable discovery exception—without requiring any factual basis to support it—is contrary to this… |
| 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… |
| 19-8809 | Brandon Lee Alexander v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery inventory-search law-enforcement primary-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search | In order to deny a motion to suppress where a warrantless inventory search is found to have violated the defendant's constitutional rights, should the… |
| 19-7209 | Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure | What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)? |
| 19-6595 | Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule | (1). Whether this Court should exercise its discretionary certiorari jurisdiction and grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case… |
| 19-5866 | Jason Loera v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-courts electronic-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure state-courts technological-advances warrant-requirement | 1. Are the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort analyzing and applying the inevitable discovery doctrine in a manner eviscerating th… |
| 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… |
| 18-9305 | Joshua Chapman-Sexton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Whether the inevitable discovery exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies to a warrantless search of a flash drive finding child po… |
| 18-8186 | Kirby Gant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read… |
| 18-7309 | Kevin Balfour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective sweep exception to the Fourth Amendment Right … |
| 18-6531 | Tyler G. Eppes v. United States | Armed Forces | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process evidence evidence-suppression inevitable-discovery military-magistrate personal-bags scope-of-search scrivener's-error search-authorization search-warrant serivener's-error | SCRIVENER'S ERROR The lower court held that the search of petitioner's personal bags did not exceed the scope of the search authorization despite the … |