pretextual-stop
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5534 | Anthony Wayne Hawkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cooperating-witness due-process law-enforcement-database pretextual-stop witness-bias | (1) Whether and to what extent the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment should contain the right to address the amount of a benefit that a co-ope… |
| 23-7824 | Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-balancing law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop whren-v-united-states | The question presented is whether an admittedly pretextual traffic stop by law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment when it is based not on proba… |
| 23-5982 | Garnet Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled. |
| 22-830 | Corey Forest v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights drug-dog law-enforcement pretextual-stop search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | 1. Whether a law enforcement officer acting as a private citizen who initiates a traffic stop with no intention of ever attempting to complete the "mi… |
| 21-7416 | Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia | Virginia | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Where officers work together in concerted action to "produce" reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o… |
| 21-5362 | Robert Lee Crawford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-misconduct misrepresentation pretextual-stop seizure warrantless-search | A. Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless off-site forced entry search of a gunsafe is preceded by a warrantless seizure of the gunsafe f… |
| 20-8180 | Benjamin Ross v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation fourth-amendment pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | NO. 1 WHETHER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT REQUIRES REASONABLE, ARTICULABLE SUSPICION AND PROBABLE CAUSE TO JUSTIFY A PRETEXTUAL TRAFFIC STOP? NO. 2. WHETHER… |
| 20-7268 | Jason P. Briscoe v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab… |
| 20-411 | Traize T. Wash v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states | 1. Whether a police officer's subject ive intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and un… |
| 20-5074 | Robert Banks, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states | 1. Should Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), be overruled for permitting unconstitutional detentions of Black Americans and people-of-color … |
| 18-8166 | Bruce Dwayne Winston v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data evidence-admissibility pretextual-stop reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure terry-stop unlawful-search-and-seizure | Did the District Court error in allowing evidence attained in an illegal Terry/Pretextural stop to be admitted into evidence in violation of the Petit… |
| 18-6422 | Larry Norton v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Petitioner Larry Norton is serving a sentence of life incarceration which originated from evidence seized after a traffic stop for speeding in a const… |
| 18-6310 | LeShawn Lawson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-activity due-process fourth-amendment investigative-questioning pretextual-stop prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | First, whether five minutes of drug-related investigative questioning of a driver at the beginning of an admittedly pretextual traffic stop, while no … |