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Illinois v. Derrick Bonilla

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Illinois, No. 122484 · judgment October 18, 2018


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

Police entered an apartment building through an unlocked outer door and led a trained narcotics detection dog to a third-floor hallway, where the dog alerted to the presence of narcotics outside of respondent’s unit. Police obtained a search warrant based on the dog’s alert and, upon executing the warrant, seized cannabis from respondent’s apartment. The questions presented are:

  1. Whether a sniff by a drug-detection dog conducted in the common area of an apartment building is a Fourth Amendment search under Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013).

  2. If the dog sniff was an unreasonable search, whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael Marc Glick

For respondent
Katherine Morgan Strohl

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage

Linked docket
18A722

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 03 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Jul 01 2019
    Reply of petitioner Illinois filed. (Distributed)
  4. Jun 18 2019
    Brief of respondent Derrick Bonilla in opposition filed.
  5. Apr 19 2019
    Brief amici curiae of State of Utah, et al. filed.
  6. Apr 12 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including June 18, 2019.
  7. Apr 08 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 19, 2019 to June 18, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
  8. Mar 18 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 19, 2019)
  9. Jan 14 2019
    Application (18A722) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until March 17, 2019.
  10. Jan 04 2019
    Application (18A722) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 16, 2019 to March 17, 2019, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.