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25-6207 Mark Eugene Benton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment vehicle-search 1) Was the search of the petitioners vehicle, on 12-31-2020, lawful under the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as Montana Cnst…
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 …
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…
24-7488 Richard W. Kelley v. Maine Maine 2025-06-24 Denied IFP fourth-amendment government-surveillance gps-tracking personal-property privacy-interest vehicle-search Does a regular passenger in a vehicle being GPS tracked by the Government have a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in his movements and the vehicle, w…
24-7160 Prentiss Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-law fourth-amendment marijuana-search state-law vehicle-search Whether it is constitutional to search a vehicle for the odor of marijuana alone, in a state that has legalized marijuana for possession, for consumpt…
24-1093 Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa Iowa 2025-04-21 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) dog-sniff fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether a dog sniff of the interior of a lawfully stopped vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment absent consent to the sniff or probable cause to belie…
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 …
24-6715 Robert Keshaun Turner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-belief search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-exception Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of the vehicle search incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement resolved the meaning of "reason…
24-6593 Juan Guerrero v. United States First Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review fourth-amendment officer-safety protective-sweep suppression-ruling vehicle-search 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in reversing the District Court's suppression ruling by holding that an officer's actual fear for their safety is n…
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…
24-6024 Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search 1) Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police, not acting in coordination with federal authorities bu…
24-535 Gregory Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search 1. Whether an individual sitting in the passenger seat of a borrowed and lawfully parked vehicle, which is being used with the standing permission of …
24-5755 Wesley Perkins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP methamphetamine-evidence motion-to-suppress park-ranger probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the District Court erred by denying Perkins' motion to suppress evidence, methamphetamine, discovered during a Park Ranger's warrantless searc…
24A238 Gregory Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-04 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Question not identified.
23-7102 Jeremy Lee Koons v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search 1) When law enforcement applied for the search warrant to search petitioner's vehicle and residence, does the Warrant Clause of the Fourth Amendment r…
23-6957 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cannabis-odor exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-scope vehicle-search warrantless-search When a warrantless search of a vehicle is initiated, due to the odor of "burnt cannabis," Does dismantling the interior exceed the scope of the search…
23-6897 Pedro Armando Nava v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure industrial-hemp marijuana-odor medical-marijuana odor-of-marijuana probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution permits a warrantless search of a vehicle based solely upon the odor of marijuana in a …
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…
23-5903 Nathan Russell Cates v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dog-sniff drug-dog-alert fourth-amendment harris-v-florida motion-to-suppress probable-cause rule-16 vehicle-search This case involves a circuit split over the materiality of a drug dog's training and performance records under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16, …
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…
23-5743 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…
23-5473 Arnez J. Salazar v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-gant closed-container fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reaching-distance search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether this Court's opinion in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009) created a two-part test that requires an arrestee to be unsecured and within reac…
23-188 Robert Dayon Dumas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived credibility fifth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search 1. Did the district court err in finding no Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation based upon the court's credibility determination on Deputy Denbo. 2. …
22-978 Jackie Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2023-04-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Where one police officer opens the door of a car, and another officer looks through the open door for contraband, have the police conducted a "search"…
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…
22-13 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…
21-1482 Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams 's Motion to Supress evidence related…
21-7934 Robert Cash Scheuerman v. Kansas Kansas 2022-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment passenger-rights privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search Whether passengers are categorically unable to challenge the search of a car in which they are the riding unless they can show an ownership or possess…
21-7785 Jose Mena-Valdez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure law-enforcement probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Did law enforcement officers have probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle driven by the Defendant.
21-1344 Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied and established the arrestee's identity secured the arrestee in a police car 4th-amendment arrest-search criminal-procedure established-identity false-identification fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search In Arizona v. Gant , this Court held, "Police may search a vehicle incident to a recent occupant's arrest only if the arrestee is with in reaching dis…
21-7508 Draven Greene v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles in non-emergency caretaker searches and whether such searches shoul…
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…
21-975 Idaho v. Aaron James Howard Idaho 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer…
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…
21-6744 Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Question not identified.
21-922 James Combs v. Indiana Indiana 2021-12-22 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment open-view-doctrine plain-view-doctrine pre-textual-search private-property vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment's plain view and/or open view doctrines permit a police officer, uninvited and without a warrant, to enter upon private p…
21-6294 Robert Michael Junkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search 1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af…
21-5823 Salvador Vasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law state-marijuana-laws vehicle-search warrantless-search When a state has decriminalized marijuana possession and use, does evidence of marijuana use inside a car—combined with nonspecific indications that t…
21-5602 Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope 1. a. Whether or not the petitioner had an expectation of privacy in his parked vehicle. b. If the search and seizure of the petitioner outside of his…
20-1189 Brian E. Hardin v. Indiana Indiana 2021-02-26 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant vehicle-search Whether law-enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution by searching a person's vehicle when the person drives…
20-7210 Tesfa Connell v. New York New York 2021-02-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment likewise mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely park…
20-7187 Haseeb Malik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law-enforcement vehicle-search Probable cause requires facts and circumstances within an officer's knowledge establishing a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime w…
20-6827 Abdul Majid v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search L Whether, in reversing the District Court's grant of a motion to suppress drug evidence, the Court of Appeals can override the lower court's findings…
20-6774 Craig B. Snoddy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search Should certiorari be granted to determine whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress the evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search, w…
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…
20-6150 Andres Keyon Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b…
20-6132 Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement Does Gant's reasonable-to-believe exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable cause, reasonable suspicion or a…
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…
19-1468 Brian Anthony Wiley v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-07-07 Denied Response Waived campsite-privacy civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct privacy private-property probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution permits police to enter a privately rented campsite without probable cause or invitatio…
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…
19-8131 Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search WHETHER a police officer can utter the magic words "I smelled an odor of marihuana" long after he conducted illegal search of a vehicle to justify sai…
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…
19-7828 Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied IFP 4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search 1. Do a police officer have probable cause to search a vehicle or a box truck without a search warrant? 2. Do citizens has the protection of the Four…
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…
19-7221 Anthony Gray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,probable-cause,search-and-seizure,ma marijuana probable-cause recreational-marijuana search-and-seizure vehicle-search I. Does the faint smell of marijuana in a car, alone, give local police probable cause to search the car for contraband under the Fourth Amendment? I…
19-6859 Michael A. Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search This case involves the impoundment and inventory search of a disabled vehicle by a law enforcement officer with an explicitly stated investigatory mot…
19-6640 Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had; (1) violated federal law; and (2) in doing so, violated petitioner Br…
19-5915 Steven J. Varnauskas v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment license-plate probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-violation vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrantless-search WHERTHER ABICYCLE RACK THATIS ATTACHED TO THE REAR OFA VEHICLE WITR STRAPS ACCORDENLY AND CORRECTLY TOTHE MANIFACTORS INSTRUCTIONS AND NONETHELESS OBS…
19-5671 James Lyle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP byrd-v-united-states community-caretaking driver's-license exclusive-possession exclusive-possession-and-control fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure non-criminal-control reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-vehicle trunk-access vehicle-search warrant-exception Under the Fourth Amendment and Byrd v. United States, 584 U.S. (2018), may a person who operates a rental vehicle without a valid driver's license nev…
19-5670 Thomas James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment byrd-doctrine exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights passenger-standing rakas-v-illinois reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search A passenger's Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy does not emanate solely from the concept of real or personal property. It is derived from the ex…
19-5596 Eric T. Latham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search Is whether this Court's ruling in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009), permitted police officers to conduct a "search incident to arrest" for only "p…
19-5431 DeAndre Cherry v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search (1)- WAS THE PETITIONER 'S FOURTH AMENEDMENT RIGHT INFRINGED UPON WHEN THE OFFICIERS CONDUCTED AN ILLEGAL SEARCH OF HIS VEHICLE ABSENT PROBABLE CAUS…
18-1478 Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland Maryland 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search When a drug-sniffing dog fails to alert as trained to but, according to its handler is behaving as if he is "in odor" of the presence of drugs, does t…
18-8797 Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent when …
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 …
18-8361 Arturo Sarli v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search Police officers stopped Arturo Sarli as he drove his truck. The officers had received a tip about Sarli and used their traffic-enforcement authority t…
18-1157 Edwin A. Vega v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-07 Denied detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure united-states-v-ross usps vehicle-search 1. In its decision in the above captioned matter did the Ohio Supreme Court reverse this honorable Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States, 135…
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…
18-8186 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read…
18-7982 Obelin Jaimes-Aviles v. Florida Florida 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Question not identified.
18-7875 Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps Lionel Cannon Argued in the Court below that the District Court erred in denying his motion for a Franks hearing, and that Court abused its discretion…
18-1035 Keithrick Thomas v. Texas Texas 2019-02-07 Denied curtilage driveway plain-view-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search curtilage fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search warrantless-search 1. Has a Fourth Amendment violation occurred, where an uninvited police officer approaches a vehicle passenger, after the passenger has exited the veh…
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.…
18-7214 Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic…
18-7124 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 …
18-6810 Timothy Hickman-Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-v-bertine criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel inventory-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman vehicle-search Did inventory search violate this Court's decisions in South Dakota v. Opperman and Colorado v. Bertine, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the Consti…
18-6431 Justin Jenkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search L. WHETHER REVIEW IS WARRANTED BECAUSE THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN REFUSING TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE AND FRUITS OF THE ILLEGAL SEARCHES OF RESIDENCES AT …
18-491 Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-10-17 Denied appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu…
18-5936 Terrance D. Johnson v. Randall Williams, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP evidence-preservation exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a pretextual seizure of a motorist based solely on probable cause due to an alleged obstructed tag? Does the Fou…
18-5667 Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'…
18-5585 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…