police-investigation
19 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6524 | Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | collective-knowledge-doctrine criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-suppression police-investigation traffic-stop | 1. Following a months-long investigation into drug trafficking and while preparing to search an apartment within a large apartment complex, police obs… |
| 22-6462 | Jerome K. Ta'afulisia v. Washington | Washington | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-creation law-enforcement-solicitation michigan-v-bryant ohio-v-clark police-investigation primary-purpose-test sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | Is a statement testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment when the speaker talks with a trusted family member who is … |
| 22-5016 | Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement | Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti… |
| 21-8262 | Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, as constructed in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), Dutton v. Evans, 400 U.S. 74 (1970) and Bru… |
| 21-973 | John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase | Second Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Dismissed | Response Requested | civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 | Canton police officers investigated a complaint of alleged sexual misconduct wherein the complainant provided various versions of the incident and, af… |
| 21-6770 | Dave Elysee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defense due-process evidence legal-procedure police-investigation presumption-of-innocence suspect-identification trial-defense | Whether a criminal defendant may mount a defense at trial based on an inadequate police investigation into another suspect. |
| 21-6150 | Jacques S. Gholston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment illinois-v-caballes police-investigation rodriguez-v-united-states time-extension traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure | Whether a traffic stop unreasonably prolonged beyond the time needed to address the purpose of the stop violates the Fourth Amendment regardless of wh… |
| 20-8179 | Chad Alan Soderman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation investigative-detention police-investigation reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states supervisory-power traffic-stop | 1. ) Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated under Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) where individual acts by police to investigate a … |
| 20-5923 | Charles Don Flores v. Texas | Texas | 2020-10-06 | Denied | 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… |
| 20-182 | Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings | Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent when it denied qualified immunity to Petit… | |
| 20-5390 | Michael Betts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation. |
| 19-7485 | Michael J. Aguon v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-crawford-v-washington crawford-v-washington due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gang-expert ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-investigation police-officer-gang-expert prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-hearsay | IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE PROSECUTION'S GANG EXPERT IS AND WAS AT ALL TIMES A POLICE OFFICER ENGAGED IN INVESTIGATING CRIMES WHEN INTERVIEWING ALL… |
| 19-6 | New York v. Jahmarley Jones | New York | 2019-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure gang-evidence police-investigation police-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements | Whether statements made by individuals during routine police investigations – prior to the commission of a specific crime, the identification of a sus… |
| 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… |
| 18-9082 | Arion D. Andrews v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-investigation evidence-sufficiency fourth-amendment independent-evidence judicial-review police-investigation probable-cause residence search-warrant | Can a search warrant properly issue under the Fourth Amendment when the police-officer-affiant states that the address to be searched is the residence… |
| 18-8213 | Hector Santillan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment minority-communities police-interrogation police-investigation prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion reid-v-georgia rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether, per the Fourth Amendment and this Court's holdings in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 1609, 1616 (2015) and Reid v. Georgia, 448 U.S. 4… |
| 18-924 | Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Under Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), a police officer may not prolong a traffic stop beyond the time required to complete the mis… |
| 18-5255 | Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility | In de novo review of a Brady claim, where the Commonwealth suppressed evidence of inducements provided to its witnesses, may a court find the suppress… |
| 18-5016 | George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop | DOES A POLICE OFFICER'S BELIEF THAT HE ALLEGEDLY HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION A MOTORIST DOES NOT HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE DIMINISH TO AN INCHOATE HUNCH OR… |