law-enforcement-interaction

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6535 James Eric Larremore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-09 Pending IFP fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction probable-cause reasonable-person-standard seizure traffic-stop Whether the deputy's instruction to "hang on a sec," particularly in context, communicated to a reasonable person in Larremore's position that he was …
23-7694 Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, aka Tony Hernandez v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-communication due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality law-enforcement-interaction no-contact-rule right-to-counsel waiver 1. Whether, as a matter of federal law, New York's "no-contact" rule, which prohibits an attorney in a case from communicating with a party he or she …
23-5893 Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement?
23-276 Dijon Sharpe v. Winterville Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-interaction police-accountability police-filming public-recording qualified-immunity This case presents a stark circuit conflict over a nationally important First Amendment question. By 2011, this Court had definitively held that gener…
21-7375 Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent 1. What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop? 2. Whether…
18-7256 Amin De Castro v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop A police officer "seizes" a person under the Fourth Amendment if he makes a request that a reasonable person would not feel free to refuse, and the pe…
18-6122 Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure A police-citizen encounter does not implicate the Fourth Amendment when consensual. Once a reasonable person would no longer feel free to ignore the p…