| 25-6242 |
Willie Frank Gordon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause vehicle-seizure |
1. Sheriff's deputies suspected a driver had drugs, stopped him, and wanted to search his car to find them. Only when their attempt to establish proba… |
| 25-5727 |
Aaron Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest-warrant constitutional-violation due-process investigative-alert law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause |
Does the city of Chicago, Illinois violate the Constitution by using an investigative alert opposed to a proper warrant when there is no exigent circu… |
| 24-851 |
Paul S. Osterman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit-challenge franks-challenge law-enforcement-procedure omissions probable-cause search-warrant |
1. In the context of a Franks challenge, when evaluating whether an alleged omission was necessary to a finding of probable cause, may a court supplem… |
| 23-826 |
Antony Junior Harris, aka Anthony Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alias-name alias-shipping contraband-detection fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure private-shipping-facility reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing |
I. Does an individual possess a reasonable expectation of privacy in a package shipped under an alias name, such that the individual has standing to a… |
| 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… |
| 23-5185 |
Yolanda Howard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
I. Did the Maine State Trooper's hunch that "there were a lot of drugs in this car" based solely on his initial encounter with Ms. Howard justify dela… |
| 23-5112 |
Kashif M. Robertson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-procedure motor-vehicle-code probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop unrelated-questioning |
1. Whether the State Court's of Pennsylvania Committed Reversible Error by Lowering the Fourth Amendment Standard that Reviewing Court's Must Look at … |
| 22-7741 |
Rudy Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warning miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination supreme-court |
1. When determining whether statements made after a midstream Miranda warning are admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectiveness… |
| 22-6777 |
Fharis Denane Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
To search a target's phone, does probable cause and good faith require a nexus between the target's phone and the crime demonstrated by case-specific … |
| 22-6304 |
Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel |
1. Was petitioner "IN Custody',* when (focus of investigation) (in presence of armed Officers)behind Locked doors)fnterragated for Hours)and Told"NOT"… |
| 22-5781 |
Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights confession-voluntariness custody-determination due-process law-enforcement-procedure miranda miranda-rights race racial-discrimination voluntariness |
Whether a court can take a defendant's race into account to determine whether the defendant's custody, and thus his subsequent un-Mirandized confessio… |
| 22-5749 |
Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-10-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing pursuant to Neil v. Biggers, 408 U.S. 188 (1972) on the reliability of an out-of-cour… |
| 21-7324 |
Caleb Guerrier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-arrest law-enforcement-procedure protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement |
When arresting someone in a home, police may search immediately adjoining spaces from which they could be directly attacked. To search other areas, ho… |
| 21-7090 |
Larry O'Neal v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation customs-and-border-patrol federal-agents in-custody-interrogation law-enforcement-procedure miranda-rights miranda-warning ruse |
Did the Appellate Court err in finding Larry O'Neal, an officer with Custom and Boarder Patrol, was not in in-custody, for Miranda purposes, he was di… |
| 21-6939 |
Clarence Tramiel Beard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention law-enforcement-procedure mail mail-seizure package-transportation reasonable-suspicion transportation united-states-v-place |
1. Whether the investigatory detention, and subsequent transportation to a new location, of an item seized from the mail intrudes on a possessory inte… |
| 21-6936 |
Charles Roland Cheatham, aka Chi-Chi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-investigation criminal-investigation evidence-derivation law-enforcement-procedure material-misstatement necessity probable-cause transfer wiretap wiretap-authorization |
1. May the government obtain a wiretap to investigate whether an individual is a member of an alleged conspiracy, by relying in part upon evidence fro… |
| 21-5795 |
Ethan Guillen v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri |
In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o… |
| 20-1745 |
Richard Sylvester v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment burden-of-proof community-caretaking fourth-amendment investigatory-motive law-enforcement-procedure police-policy probable-cause subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances vehicle-impound vehicle-impoundment |
1. In order for a vehicle impound to be consonant with the Fourth Amendment, must a police officer comply with established impound policies and proced… |
| 20-7704 |
Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant |
1. Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the
equivalent of a search warrant, thereby authorizing the police to use force to… |
| 20-6701 |
Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether or not a third party, Appellant, has an expectation of privacy, in terms of cell-phone data that a police officer or detective obtains, howeve… |
| 20-6400 |
Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights community-caretaker community-caretaker-exception domestic-intervention domestic-violence fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure warrantless-entry welfare-check |
Whether the community caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment allowed law enforcement to make warrantless entry into the home of Mr. Sanders, his … |
| 20-5923 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-10-06 |
Granted |
Amici (2)IFP |
constitutional-fairness death-penalty due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial hypnosis investigative-hypnosis law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation |
In Rock v. Arkansas, 483 U.S. 44 (1987), this Court found that, although "hypnotically refreshed" testimony was "controversial," the dangers associate… |
| 19-6766 |
Miles Barton Nichols v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant |
1. Whether a finding of recklessness, entitling a defendant to a hearing pursuant to Franks v. Delaware, should be inferred where the omissions are cl… |
| 19-21 |
Gregory Owens v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant? |
| 18-1542 |
Bobby Johnson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admissibility admissibility-of-statements constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings self-incrimination timing timing-of-warnings |
1. Whether an officer violates a defendant's constitutional privilege against self-incrimination or due process rights by (a) delivering Miranda warni… |
| 18-1478 |
Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
When a drug-sniffing dog fails to alert as trained to but, according to its handler is behaving as if he is "in odor" of the presence of drugs, does t… |
| 18-986 |
Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation |
An Oklahoma social worker and two law enforcement officers investigating child abuse allegations contributed to the brief removal of a minor child fro… |
| 18-7214 |
Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic… |
| 18-6323 |
Ashley Kenneth Hunter v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof colorado-v-connelly constitutional-rights distortion due-process interrogation-recording law-enforcement-procedure lower-courts miranda-warnings supreme-court unequal-application |
There is currently no nationwide standard regarding recording requirements of Miranda and/or interrogations. The state level jurisdictions are split w… |
| 18-339 |
June Harper v. Arthur Leahy, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-procedure payton-standard payton-v-new-york probable-cause reasonable-suspicion |
Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to have probable cause to believe that a suspect is present in a home before forcing entry into that… |
| 18-5667 |
Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure |
Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'… |
| 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… |