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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6145 | Gabriel Gallegos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion show-of-authority terry-stop vehicle-stop | When law enforcement makes a show of authority that causes a vehicle to come to a complete stop, however briefly, before fleeing, is that a stop withi… |
| 25-583 | Rodney Towe v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-11-17 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte… | |
| 25-6051 | Claude Coleman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | fourth-amendment high-crime-area misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | The Fourth Amendment protects citizens in public spaces from being seized by law enforcement without reasonable suspicion that they have committed a c… |
| 25-5990 | Tylee Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | detention fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-search | 1. Whether a passenger in a vehicle, who briefly leaves the vehicle during a police encounter, but is contemporaneously detained with the vehicle and … |
| 25A63 | District of Columbia v. R.W. | District of Columbia | 2025-07-16 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment investigative-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances | 1. This case involves an important question regarding the constitutional standard for a police officer to conduct an investigative stop. It is well es… | |
| 25-5010 | Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search | Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), and does the Fifth C… |
| 24-6978 | Adam Douglas Sherwood v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause terry-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search | Under Terry and its progeny, the police may stop and briefly detain a person driving in a motor vehicle for investigative purposes if the officer has … |
| 24-6962 | Prince L. Spellman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-suspicion standing suppression-hearing terry-stop | 1. ) Whether this Courts.decision in Combs v. United States 408 US 224, 33 L Ed 2d 308, 92 SCT 2284 (1972) and its progeny should be sustained when th… |
| 24-6738 | Steven Dewayne Barnes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure firearm-possession reasonable-suspicion second-amendment sentencing-enhancement terry-stop | 1. The Eleventh Circuit erred in concluding that officers had reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry stop and frisk based on ambiguous and subjective… |
| 24-5722 | Buta Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-08 | Denied | IFP | custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop | In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran… |
| 24-5687 | Solomon Odubajo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure source-state terry-stop warrantless-search | 1. Given Deputy Twombly's admission on the record (PagelD //500, 9-14) that the only factor establishing reasonable suspicion to seize the Parcel was… |
| 24-5505 | David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop warrantless-detention | After a traffic stop for a misdemeanor traffic violation is complete, and a citation has been issued, does possession of cash alone satisfy this Court… |
| 24-5381 | Nathan Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-search probable-cause stop-and-frisk terry-stop | Whether the Court should overrule the frisk holding of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), which allows police officers to search people absent probable… |
| 24A157 | United States v. Landon R. Mayo | District of Columbia | 2024-08-08 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5197 | Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-investigation empirical-evidence fourth-amendment officer-mistake probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he seizes for criminal investigation a pedestrian walking in the vicinity of a recent robb… |
| 24A34 | David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment investigatory-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 24A9 | Nathan Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Presumed Complete | armed-and-dangerous criminal-activity fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6976 | Juan Cabrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure custody eighth-circuit howes-test miranda-custody miranda-rights ninth-circuit supreme-court tenth-circuit terry-stop | Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes. |
| 23-6550 | Xavier Howell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-trafficking fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio vehicle-search vehicle-stop warrantless-search warrantless-stop | Whether a Warrantless Stop of a Vehicle, Based Solely on Proximity to a Motel Known for Drug Trafficking, in the Absence of any Actual Violation of th… |
| 23-6523 | Mark David Galloway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur… |
| 23-6355 | Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-12-27 | Denied | IFP | article-1-section-8 criminal-procedure drug-buys dunaway-v-new-york fourth-amendment probable-cause strickland-standard terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-arrest | WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA JUDICIARY'S APPLICATION OF THE Strickland/Pierce STANDARD WAS UNREASONABLE, WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL FAILED TO LITIGATE VIOLATIONS… |
| 22-7691 | Jace Emerson Fesler v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-procedure reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Does a citizen's noncompliance with an unlawful order from law enforcement create reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk? |
| 22-6169 | Shane Alan Nault v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment investigatory-stop rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure seizure-scope terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether seizing an individual seated in a parked car in a private parking lot should be analyzed in the context of a "traffic stop" under Rodriguez, o… |
| 22-307 | Michigan v. Marcus Martell McCloud and Bruce Cliffin Edwards | Michigan | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | commonsense-judgments criminal-procedure detention frisk human-behavior law-enforcement officer-experience probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop weapons-frisk | Police preparing to enter a suspected unlicensed after-hours drinking establishment to make an under-cover purchase removed the two respondents from j… |
| 21-7038 | Jeremy William Lillich v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment identification reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop warrant-execution | Petitioner Jeremy Lillich pleaded guilty, pursuant to a conditional plea agreement, to violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), 2… |
| 21-952 | Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-12-29 | Denied | detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention protective-search protective-search-exception roadside-encounter terry-stop traffic-stop unoccupied-vehicle vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Whether the protective search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to an unoccupied vehicle if the former occupant is detai… | |
| 21-835 | Otha Ray Flowers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether conduct that is consistent with either lawful or unlawful behavior, and in which law-abiding members of the general public routinely engage, c… | |
| 21-6449 | Pizarro Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure | QUESTION 1 : WAS THERE "REASONABLE SUSPICION" JUSTIFYING PETITIONER'S STOP AND FRISK UNDER TERRY WHEN THE OFFICERS EFFECTING THE "STOP " DID NOT OBSER… |
| 21-6368 | Suzanne Elizabeth Wexler v. Texas | Texas | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-detention miranda miranda-custody police-authority search-warrant terry-stop | 1. Whether Fourth Amendment reasonableness concerns have any bearing on a determination of custody under Miranda, specifically in regards to whether a… |
| 21-5913 | Desmond S. Gaines v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 911-tip anonymous-tip anonymous-tips corroboration drug-sales reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure terry-stop totality-of-circumstances | An anonymous tip must either be reliable on its own or be adequately corroborated before it can provide reasonable suspicion to seize a person. This C… |
| 21-5528 | Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop | Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure. |
| 21-287 | Benjamin Caleb Trott v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response Waived | anonymous-tip drunk-driving fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-stop | 1. Whether or under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment permits courts to balance the risk of harm posed by drunk driving against the intrusivenes… |
| 20-1685 | Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | The Fourth Amendment requires that a Terry stop be supported by some minimal level of objective justification for the stop. In conducting a Fourth Ame… | |
| 20-8160 | Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Does a sweatshirt bulge alone give an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop Bontemps? |
| 20-7716 | Milton Mosley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | The finding of the lower courts, where suspicion of criminal activity was clearly not "specific, individualized, and reasonable," is contrary to the S… |
| 20-7612 | Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop | To uphold a Terry frisk as constitutional, the First and Ninth Circuits require the frisking officer to have actually suspected that the detainee may … |
| 20-7119 | Javier Alejandro Moline-Borroto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment checkpoint-seizure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-encounter prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the lower courts erred by finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to transform a suspicionless checkpoint seizure into a prolonged i… |
| 20-1082 | Raymond Gardner v. Matthew T. Mglej | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search identification identification-statute law-enforcement qualified-immunity terry-stop | Whether it was clearly established in 2011 that an arrest under Utah Code Section 76-8-301.5(1) for refusal to hand over an identification document vi… | |
| 20-7003 | Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop | Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion where a police officer violated a rule announced in Terry v. Ohio, under the Fourth Ame… |
| 20-6960 | DeAndre McMichaels v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment concealed-carry fourth-amendment law-enforcement public-carry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | In a state that permits residents to legally carry concealed firearms while in public, whether or under what circumstances an officer's belief that a … |
| 20-6586 | Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement | 1. Police officers may stop a person under an exception to the warrant requirement only if they have reasonable suspicion to support an assertion of i… |
| 20-733 | Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the "individualized suspicion" required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots? | |
| 20-6055 | Terrill Bernard Weatherspoon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment companion-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety pat-down-search reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | MUST AN OFFICER HAVE A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT A COMPANION OF AN ARRESTEE IS ARMED AND DANGEROUS, INDEPENDENTLY OF A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT THE A… |
| 20-5405 | Jaroderick Hardy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause proximity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968) and its progeny, law enforcement officers may conduct a brief, investigative stop when, under the tot… |
| 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… |
| 19-8913 | Wasfi Abbassi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | false-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant stale-information terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit's upholding of a search warrant based almost exclusively on false, misleading and stale information violated the Fourth Amen… |
| 19-8594 | Justin Harrington Darrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow officer-safety reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether "officer safety" can justify the seizure of a person for a Terry stop, instead of pointing to specific, articulable facts that lead him to rea… |
| 19-8401 | Roderick Delon Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collins-v-virginia curtilage fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant | 1- Whether an officer's intrusion into the front and back yards of the Petitioner's residence so obviously implicated the Fourth Amendment curtilage p… |
| 19-7881 | Tavares L. Farrington v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop | Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po… |
| 19-814 | Tony Deshawn McCoy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-and-dangerous fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion marijuana-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether officers can presume that a person is "armed and presently dangerous" simply because the person possesses any amount of marijuana, however sma… |
| 19-327 | Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. | Ohio | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | This dispute turns on the proper interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In a jurisdiction where citizens are entitl… |
| 19-5582 | Tuan Duc Lam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search | Once a police officer makes a formal custodial arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search incident to that arrest. See, e.g., Riley v. … |
| 19-5347 | Joshua Frederick Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-sniff due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Will this Honrable Curt revisit Elrida VHars to clariy what the Court meant bY "THE DOG'S ALERT"? Is THE DOG'S ALERT, the behavior that the day is IRA… |
| 18-1577 | Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams | Pennsylvania | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | The question presented is whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of … |
| 18-1554 | Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor. |
| 18-9399 | Paul Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ammunition ammunition-seizure eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-original-meaning original-meaning pat-down police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police officer to seize a freestanding round of ammunition identified during a pat down conducted pursuant to Ter… |
| 18-1408 | John Washek v. Vermont | Vermont | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop | 1. Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations … |
| 18-9036 | Gregory Tarrel Brown v. Virginia, et al. | Virginia | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | 1. Was the entry by law enforcement on the curtilage of the property based on an unsubstantiated tip, without consent, violative of the Fourth Amendme… |
| 18-8988 | Airrington L. Sykes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | (1) Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminal… |
| 18-8785 | Temarco Sartorio Pope, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | (1) Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminal… |
| 18-8631 | Bekim Fiseku v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment handcuffing investigative-stop police-procedure probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio unusual-circumstances | Whether in concluding that, where a suspect presented no discernable threat of physical violence and police had nothing beyond mere speculation that c… |
| 18-1166 | Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | Whether Illinois v. Lidster, 540 U.S. 419 (2004), allows the police to stop a criminal suspect in the absence of reasonable suspicion on the ground th… |
| 18-8293 | Rodolfo Rivero Garcia, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol border-search drug-interdiction drug-trafficking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop vehicle-search vehicle-stop | Whether the stop of Mr. Garcia's vehicle was supported by reasonable suspicion of illegal activity where the only factors present were: (1) the stop o… |
| 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… |
| 18-7882 | Christopher M. Gates v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force | A. Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or "Terry stop," where there is a risk to officer safety. B. Whethe… |
| 18-7294 | Sergio Antonio Zambrano v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment pat-down probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search warrantless-searches | Where a police officer initiates a stop of an individual pursuant to Terry v. Ohio and pats down the outer clothing of the individual and feels an obj… |
| 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… |
| 18-7156 | Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio | This Court has held, in several traffic stop cases, that investigatory stops based on probable cause can violate the Fourth Amendment in scope and dur… |
| 18-437 | Dmitri I. Medvedev v. Henrico County | Virginia | 2018-10-05 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights driver's-license due-process dui fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), a police officer can briefly detain a person based on reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in crim… | |
| 18-6179 | Mario Govan Emmanuel v. Territory of the Virgin Islands | Virgin Islands | 2018-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment bolo-flyer collective-knowledge collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-doctrine fourth-amendment officer-discretion reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop terry-v-ohio united-states-v-hensley whiteley-v-warden | Does the collective knowledge or fellow officer doctrine eliminate the need for the BOLO-flyer "to articulate facts supporting a reasonable suspicion … |
| 18-5296 | Todd Rasberry v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | consent fourth-amendment home-privacy home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant-requirement warrantless-search | May the government circumvent a home occupant's consent by invoking Terry v. Ohio to search home and person without a warrant? |