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25-6550 George Madison Kitchen, IV v. United States Eighth Circuit 2026-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidence-rule-404b federal-appellate-review hearsay-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard traffic-stop 1. WHETHER THE 8TH CIRCUIT ERRED FINDING THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTED JUSTIFYING THE STOP OF PETITIONER'S VEHICLE AND MISAPPLYING RODRIGUEZ ON WH…
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 …
25-6524 Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-08 Denied 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…
25-738 Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King Sixth Circuit 2025-12-22 Denied Response Waived excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f…
25-629 Billy Puckett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-questions police-procedure reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop In Rodriguez v. United States, this Court held that a police officer may not extend a traffic stop, absent reasonable suspicion, to conduct a dog snif…
25-588 Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana Montana 2025-11-18 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment police-questioning seizure traffic-stop Whether a driver who is lawfully stopped for a traffic infraction remains seized for Fourth Amendment purposes when the officer concludes the purpose …
25A455 Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-10-21 Denied badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop Question not identified.
25A447 Billy Puckett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-21 Presumed Complete de-minimis-extension fourth-amendment investigatory-questioning rodriguez-standard seizure-duration traffic-stop Question not identified.
25A260 Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana Montana 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete consent fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
25A184 Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Question not identified.
25-5002 Juan Carlos Garridoaguilar v. California California 2025-07-01 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search A police officer recovered a firearm when he conducted a warrantless search of the passengers of a car stopped for a registration violation. Was it er…
24-7465 Nikky Nicole Lujan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop In Rodrig uez v. United S tates, 575 U.S. 348, 354 (2015) , this Court held that an officer needs reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop beyon…
24-7229 DeAndre Jackson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop WHETHER the Third Circuit's ruling that an officer's mere suspicion of a suspects dangerousness absent any additional facts supports an arrest rather …
24-7219 Martin Devalois v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1.Does a law enforcement officer violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution when he has every thing he needs to complete a traffic stop and fini…
24-6998 Eric Ellis v. City of White Settlement, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment passenger-arrest probable-cause traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure warrantless-seizure 1. Whether the warrantless seizure of a suspect 's children without probable cause during a traffic stop violates the Fourth Amendment. 2. Whether a…
24-863 Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota South Dakota 2025-02-12 Denied fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search When police officers have probable cause to believe that a stopped car contains contraband, they may search containers in the car, including a purse s…
24-6499 Michael J. Baniel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment narcotics-investigation probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether Trooper Colton Derrick unreasonably extended Mr. Michael J. Baniel's traffic stop, that was preceded by and subjugated to a narcotics investig…
24A668 Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-08 Presumed Complete drug-sniffing-k9 fourth-amendment investigative-devices probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
24-6091 Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop 1). Why has The United State Court of Appeal For the Tenth Circuit entered a decision so far departed from the accepted and usual courts of judicial p…
24-6080 Victor Manuel Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop A traffic stop is a warrantless Fourth Amendment seizure of all the occupants of the car. Like other temporary detentions of individuals, "the tolerab…
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…
24-5501 Victor Manuel Campos-Ayala v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied IFP controlled-substances-act due-process fourth-amendment miranda-warnings traffic-stop witness-deportation 1. Whether, during an investigation arising from a traffic stop, agents, who act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment, must read Miranda warnings whe…
24-5396 Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe Tenth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied IFP collective-knowledge-doctrine detention fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop On a traffic-stop after the Officer, gave the citation to Petitioner, and Petitioner, did not give him consent to search his vehicle. 1.Why does the P…
24-5226 Terry Dwayne Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof fourth-amendment law-enforcement pacing probable-cause search-and-seizure speed-estimation traffic-stop warrantless-search "The government bears the burden of proof in justifying a warrantless search or seizure." United States v. McGee, 736 F.3d 263, 269 (4th Cir. 2013), c…
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.
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…
23-7562 Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1. Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth A…
23A1023 Marques A. Johnson v. Chris Nocco, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-17 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment identification law-enforcement passenger-rights qualified-immunity traffic-stop Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing may be arrested solely for refusing to immediately…
23A975 Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
23-7350 Raul Zamora-Quinonos v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion consent-search exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment involuntary-consent law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search WHETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT VIOLATED THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATE…
23A863 Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-26 Presumed Complete deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-standard reasonableness-test traffic-stop use-of-force Question not identified.
23-6796 Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search v…
23-885 Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-16 Denied anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop In Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1973), this Court recognized the "community caretaking" function of police. In Florida v. J.L., 529 U.S. 266 (200…
23-6601 Quentin John Fishburne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov…
23-6448 Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Texas DPS Troopers stopped Stephen Brunson because his license plate was expired. They had planned, due to a tip they received, to ask for consent to …
23-709 David R. Johnson v. Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-01-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) §1983-claim civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-claims default-judgment due-process judicial-misconduct standing state-abuse-of-power traffic-stop Whether, II. App. 1-13-2109, was affirmed, U.S. Sup. 14-1173, and it affirmed, default was sought in both Court of Claims Cases, under 74 Ill. Admin C…
23-6352 LaDerrius Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure due-process owner-driver-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-ownership Whether Glover's owner-driver inference constitutes, not only reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop of a motorist if the police have reason …
23-499 Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop While out shopping five days before Christmas, Petitioner had a brief interaction in the public parking lot of a shopping center with a man agents sus…
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.
23-5952 Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop I. Mr. Williams moved to suppress the evidence related to the controlled substances because he was unlawfully detained when there was no reasonable su…
23-446 Junjie Li v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2023-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the slight odor of marijuana coming from within a car stopped for a passenger's seatbelt violation, in a state where possession of one ounce o…
23-5862 Benancio Castaneda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility canine-sniff drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search Narcotics agents were surveilling a house based on unidentified "concerned citizen" calls of a high volume of short-stay traffic. Without corroboratin…
23-5793 Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention, as this Court held in Brendlin v. California, or…
23-5743 Xzavione Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied IFP criminal-investigation exit-order fourth-amendment pennsylvania-v-mimms police-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop vehicle-search The question presented is whether a police officer detours from the lawful mission of a traffic stop by ordering that the driver of a car exit the veh…
23-272 Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe Fourth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) first-amendment fourth-amendment livestreaming reasonable-time-place-manner seizure traffic-stop Should the constitutionality of a law enforcement officer's restriction of livestreaming by an occupant of a seized vehicle during a lawfully initiate…
23-5481 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search Question not identified.
23-5302 Larry Rederick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop traffic-stops unreasonable-search 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Authorizes Unreasonably Prolonged Traffic Stops and Unreasonable Searching of a Separate Vehic…
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 …
23A31 Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe Fourth Circuit 2023-07-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F…
23-5022 Ruben Ramirez-Rivera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-sniff fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause traffic-stop Whether Mr. Ramirez-River's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress all fruits of an illegal traffic stop was denied?
22-1151 City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states Rather than submit to arrest pursuant to multiple lawfully issued arrest warrants, a suspect who was pulled over for a traffic violation refused to ex…
22-7514 Joshua Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment color-discrepancy fourth-amendment high-crime-area probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-registration A vehicle might appear to be a certain color, but its registration says that it should be a different color. This might happen if a motorist decide d …
22-7371 Ryan William Buchheim v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop In the context of a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and a subsequent Application for Certificate of Appealability (COA) under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 Petitione…
22-7253 Ilse Ivon Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states scope-of-justification traffic-stop I. IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S OPINION IN RODRIGUEZ V. UNITED STATES, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), DID THE OFFICER'S INQUIRIES UNJUSTIFIABLY PROLONG THE TRAFFIC …
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…
22-728 Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver Sixth Circuit 2023-02-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop 1. This Court has repeatedly instructed the lower courts that in determining whether a right is clearly established for purposes of qualified immunity…
22-6484 Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop 1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis…
22-6286 John Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment, U.S. Const. Amend. IV, permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants when the officer only knows that…
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…
22-5925 Christopher Santillanes Ceja v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-investigation drug-trafficking fourth-amendment investigative-duration law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop 1. Was the traffic stop of Mr. Ceja unreasonably prolonged when officers conducted two consecutive investigations, one for an alleged traffic violatio…
22-5809 Sirron Moralez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights container fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-stop vehicle-search Does an empty container with "THC" on the cover justify an extended detention in a traffic stop and support the seizure of the driver and search of th…
22-5821 Felipe Noriega, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to extend a concluded traffic stop based on minimal, if any, suspicious factors. 2. Whether t…
22-5741 Anthony Delano Hylton, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history criminal-procedure detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement-inquiry prolonged-detention rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop A. Does This Court's Decision in Rodriguez v. United States permit any criminal history inquiry at any traffic stop no matter how long the inquiry tak…
22-5726 Veronica Gonzalez-Carmona v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility drug-interdiction fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-testimony rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states safety-valve-relief traffic-stop 1. Whether an officer's interspersed drug interdiction questions impermissibly extend a traffic stop per this Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United …
22-5373 Berenice Del Angel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-limits fourth-amendment law-enforcement rodriguez scope-of-detention seizure traffic-stop warrantless-detention Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from continuing his warrantless detention of a motorist after the officer has announced that h…
22-5273 Bradley Beauchamp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation 1. Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articul…
22-5213 Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check Absent reasonable suspicion or officer safety concerns, is a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop a per se "fishing expediti…
22-13 Nicholas James Imhoff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rental-car search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether a person driving a rental car is sufficient factual basis during a routine traffic stop to create reasonable suspicion to perform a vehicle se…
21-8037 Larry Blakney v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop warrantless-search Question not identified.
21-7919 Raul Ambriz-Villa, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-questioning search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1. During a traffic stop, does the Fourth Amendment place any limit on the extent and manner of questioning by police regarding matters not related to…
21-7889 Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search Mr. Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting was a passenger in a car stopped by three police officers for a minor traffic infraction. At the time of the traffic stop,…
21-7808 John Edward McIntyre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop In Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), this Court held that for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, a police officer's subjective motivation fo…
21-7724 Anthony Fields v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop 1. Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring com…
21-7585 Jayson McNeil v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure traffic-stop Did the Trial Court err in denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress evidence from a traffic stop and resulting search and seizure that was uncons…
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…
21-7313 Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
21-7279 Charlie Foster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Consistent with the Fourth Amendment, may a law enforcement officer extend a traffic stop by asking for a driver's license and registration after the …
21-1165 Janhoi Cole v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigation officer-conduct rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop unrelated-crimes Whether the extension of a traffic stop for an officer to ask detailed questions about the driver's travel plans violates the Fourth Amendment rule in…
21-7153 Arthur Miles v. United States First Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions Can facts observed or learned by a police officer after he decided to initiate a traffic stop, which traffic stop was delayed a short distance only ba…
21-1125 Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force 1. Does the Fourth Amendment entitle police to seize all speeding motorists by shooting them, regardless of the circumstances and independently of any…
21-6857 Reginald E. Blandford v. New York New York 2022-01-14 Denied IFP drug-sniff founded-suspicion fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-york reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search This Court has held that under the Fourth Amendment police officers may not extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff of a vehicle's exterior with…
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…
21-6628 Frank McNabb v. Texas Texas 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search consent-to-search detention-extension fishing-expedition fourth-amendment official-coercion retroactive-forgiveness traffic-stop warrant-exception During a traffic stop, CONSENT TO SEARCH is the exception to the 4th Amendment Warrant Rule; Is it also retroactive forgiveness for any and all violat…
21-6458 David A. Callison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit civil-procedure due-process law-enforcement proof-of-insurance rodriguez-analysis traffic-stop trial-record 1. Whether the 8th Circuit erred by refusing to perform a Rodriguez analysis on whether or not a traffic stop was improperly extended because it misco…
21-6251 Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the…
21-6223 Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Once an officer issues a traffic citation and tells the person he may leave, the Fourth Amendment requires consent to then delay departure to ask more…
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…
21-6158 Delilah Colarte v. Florida Florida 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-limits fourth-amendment passenger-identification rodriguez-limits rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-duration traffic-stop warrant-check 1. Whether the "mission" of a routine traffic stop includes law enforcement requiring passengers in the vehicle to identify themselves, and to run che…
21-5768 Jeffrey William Forget v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inventory-search k-9-unit passenger-seat-belt traffic-stop warrantless-search 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the traffic stop of Petitioner was not unlawfully extended in violation of the Fourth Amendment,…
21-383 Wyoming v. William Thomas Mahaffy, V Wyoming 2021-09-09 Denied constitutional-law de-minimis-extension duration-of-stop fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unrelated-questioning Did the Rodriguez Court's rejection of de minimis extensions to traffic stops abrogate or limit Johnson, thereby prohibiting officers from posing any …
21-374 Steven Edward Struve v. Iowa Iowa 2021-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cellphone-use civil-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion texting-while-driving traffic-stop Whether police officers in those states have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate an investigatory traffic stop, where they obs…
21-5612 Geontay Patterson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop I. Mr. Patterson moved to suppress controlled substances found during a search of his person because there was no constitutional basis to seize and se…
21-5518 John Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop I. Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of "…
21-5433 Alex White v. California California 2021-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement mistake-of-law pretext pretext-stop reasonable-mistake traffic-stop vehicle-code vehicle-equipment 1. Where police officers admitted that their equipment violation stop of the vehicle in which petitioner was a passenger was a pretext to conduct gang…
21-5287 Cherosco Brewer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states terry-v-ohio traffic-stop 1. For an otherwise lawful traffic stop for a routine traffic violation, does the stop fail the duration test of Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. …
21-5027 Shane LaGrange v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT IMPROPERLY CONCLUDED THAT THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PERMITS THE COURT TO FIND THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION FOR A TRAFFIC STOP EXIST…
20-8445 Christian Kalen Crawford v. Florida Florida 2021-06-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure detention due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether law enforcement officers may extend the detention of a driver involved in an accident resulting in the death of another person in order to wai…
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 …
20-8180 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…
20-8156 Ricardo Renteria v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r…
20-1607 Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen Michigan 2021-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop Respondent was stopped for speeding in a residential street within the village, on a road with a 25 MPH sign going the other way, where almost all the…
20-7996 Roland Leroy Reese-Bey v. Juan Guerrero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel summary-judgment traffic-stop Where jurisdiction was initially questioned and never established or proven on the record, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an "alleged" an…
20-1314 Joshua Gregory Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation legal-procedure paid-citation sixth-amendment traffic-stop unlawful-search Whether Counsel's decision not to suppress evidence unlawfully seized from a traffic stop because a traffic citation was paid, then relying on that pa…
20-7444 Toddrey Bruce v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop In Navarette v. California, the Court held that the "absence of additional suspicious conduct"—five minutes of normal driving—did not dispel reasonabl…
20-7436 Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida Florida 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop Within what narrow istah does a roto- cwwx rau tragic stop arap* the subsequent observation through the- window of stopped veryca£. ftt'jeal' * irg* a…
20-7416 James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights when they searched him during a traffic stop had probable cause to arrest the …
20-7329 Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether, under the totality-of-the circumstances test, the police officers in this case had reasonable suspicion that justified an investigative stop …
20-7271 Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment illinois-v-caballes k9-deployment rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop If WrtfsaW\ (X W&C \& (Lompleki dot5 X\\\nois V, CoSo<x\W 5V3 u.5. HOS, 135 5.a 834, IbO L.EA. 0<A 841 W ClDac^m'mg Ata <kf\oymu4 0|a^? WKor\ Cmc^r^…
20-7102 Toheed Ahmed v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence seized during and derived from an August 26, 2015 tra…
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…
20-1027 Joshua Coleman v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure unreasonable-seizures Does the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures tolerate a dog sniff which prolongs a stop, which occurs after all purposes for the…
20-993 Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether a police officer may, in the absence of reasonable suspicion, extend an otherwise completed traffic stop, justified only by a police officer o…
20-6472 Raquel Cortez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop This Court has held that held that the use of a drug-detention canine unit after the completion of an otherwise lawful traffic stop exceeded the time …
20-6454 Mark David Zimmerman v. Texas Texas 2020-11-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree k-9-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop #I: Oid The State of Texas ard the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, the State Court of last resort, err by affrming the lower trial Court and Judge Br…
20-564 Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-10-30 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend…
20-6172 Yulian Manuel Villavicencio, aka Cristian Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment interdiction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether payment of $630 for a SUV rental in the defendant's home state of Florida to go to North Carolina for a visit, the inability to recall the spe…
20-6149 Jose Sanchez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search When an improperly performed drug-dog sniff of a vehicle fails to provide probable cause to search for contraband, but law enforcement officers search…
20-5991 Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated by Officer Windham by extending his detention of Reyes for over 20 minutes to allow for a canine to …
20-5967 John Elisha Mayville v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop Whether an officer can spend his time conducting unrelated investigations, such as a dog sniff, while he is waiting for the results of a twelve minute…
20-5918 Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search /.s fine. Supreme CoorY c/lse \Aud J aIonj wiil) Me /4ppeA/MM Covrfs cASc Iauj 2c ~hhe d/sfricf Courts cASe UtJ, fAM rS -from MeSAme c/MricM j- Appa…
20-5829 Jerry Fruit v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search?
20-5843 Courtney C. Brown v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-authority reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-us search search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop 1. Should the Court reverse Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106, 109-10 (1977), wherein, based on "the inordinate risk confronting an officer as he ap…
20-5747 Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop (1) Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched? (2) Whet…
20-5555 Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search Duri ng the early morni ng hours, a shooti ng took place in a parking lot of an apartment compl ex. The crime scene was large. There were a lot of she…
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.
20-134 Abilio Hernandez, et al. v. Jason Boles, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment jury-deference jury-instructions standard-of-review traffic-stop warrant-check L. In a civil rights lawsuit, should a federal appellate court grant deference to a jury's conclusions of law about constitutional issues? I. While w…
20-5187 Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Question not identified.
19-8250 Michael Thomas Gaussiran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-searches unreasonable-searches-and-seizures vehicle-search Whether the Fourth Amendment's Right To Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures Requires Reversal When There Is No Evidence To Support Reasona…
19-1200 Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio Ohio 2020-04-08 Denied 4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search GIVEN A TRAFFIC STOP MADE BY THE STATE TROOPER, WHO WAS THE "DOG HANDLER" INVOLVED, WAS ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING HIS TICKET WRITING, WHEN…
19-8212 Santiago Soto-Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop witness-testimony I. Did the 8th cir. court of appeals error when they concluded that the ^ in plain view and registeredmere presents or possession of guns/weapons that…
19-1161 Justin Hawkins v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration — without any additional facts — gives a police offic…
19-7716 Timmy Wallace v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment database-search fourth-amendment police-database reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-identification 1. Does Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015) permit a traffic stop to be extended based on a suspicion that had already been dispelled b…
19-7667 Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence WHETHER THE PROMISE TO BE FREE TO LEAVE AFTER CLEARANCE OF DRIVERS LICENSE, VEHICLE PAPERS, AND WARRANTS — with issuance of a warning traffic citati…
19-7507 Tommy Gurule v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search?
19-7432 Edwin David Calligan v. Indiana Indiana 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment michigan-v-long officer-safety protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search 1. Whether this Court should reconsider the reasonableness of its premise in Michigan v. Long; 463 U.S. 1032 (1983), that officers could reasonably fe…
19-6885 Antonio Escobar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop 1. Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United …
19-6587 Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1. Petitioner was the passenger in a vehicle stopped for a driving infraction. When Petitioner opened the glove compartment to retrieve the vehicle's …
19-6414 Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-6332 Walter Glenn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop 1. In September 2014, did a relief driver of a rental vehicle, driving with permission of the lessee, although contractually unauthorized, have standi…
19-6233 Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness The questions important to this case are: I. Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his right…
19-5953 Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
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…
19-5306 Born Murray v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe…
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 …
18-9631 Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l…
18-1486 Zachariah J. Marshall v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment federal-precedent fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion speeding traffic-stop vehicle-movement vehicle-speed warrantless-stop Whether the Supreme Court of Indiana's decision was contrary to federal precedent when it held that there was reasonable suspicion to substantiate a w…
18-1435 Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas Sixth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop I. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals define the "clearly established" constitutional rights at issue in this qualified immunity case at too high …
18-8754 Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska Alaska 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop Should civil penalties been imposed on petitioner (Pomeroy) for refusal to submit to a breath test, when an intrusive blood test was administered to p…
18-8411 Lecephrus Pierce v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether in affirming the petitioner's conviction the fourth circuit court of appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent when they found no …
18-1188 Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-03-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision Where one driver involved in a vehicle collision did not report to police that she observed any behavior by the other driver (Jacobi) to suggest that …
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…
18-8213 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…
18-8177 Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Under this Court's Fourth Amendment decisions, an officer is prohibited from prolonging a traffic stop beyond its original purpose without "reasonable…
18-8054 Michael Kenneth Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out…
18-1006 Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search The warrantless impoundment of an arrested person's car must be in furtherance of "public safety" or "community caretaking functions." South Dakota v.…
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…
18-7124 Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search In Ohio v. Robinette, 519 U.S. 35, 41 (1996) Justice Ginsburg, in a concurring opinion, discussed the need to evaluate both the reason for an initial …
18-6963 Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable…
18-6908 Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied IFP 42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop - a traffic stop without either probabl…
18-667 Lonnie Charles Williams, III v. Texas Texas 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived driving-while-intoxicated drug-detection fourth-amendment intoxication-signs law-enforcement odor-of-alcohol probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment can exist in a driving while intoxicated context when officers do not detect the odor of alcoh…
18-6664 Daniel David Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the lower courts erred in denying Mr. Garza's Motion to Suppress based on the erroneous finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to i…
18-6484 Markus Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment pat-down police-procedure prior-incidents reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether factors based largely on prior incidents, some years old, can provide a police officer with the reasonable suspicion the Fourth Amendment requ…
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…
18-6412 Jaiyanah Bey v. Elmwood Place Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure administrative-search civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop The United States Constitution forth bill of right protects the people in their private capacity from any unlawful stops, search and seziors without a…
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 …
18-5824 James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop 1.THE RIGHT TO A FAIRTRIAL , " PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION" THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY " FOUTH AMENDMENT" THE TRAFFIC STOP. ENTAPMENT.
18-5585 Karen Mackey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search I. The Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's vehi…
18-145 Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien…
18-5292 Armando Angeles v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop Whether, when affirming the denial of Mr. Angeles' motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's…
18-13 Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas Texas 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop The Court of Appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop. Once the purpose of the traffic stop c…
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…