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Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 19-20688 · judgment October 22, 2020

Certiorari denied · April 19, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

Question presented

Is the presumption that warrantless searches are per se unreasonable so obvious a violation of the Fourth Amendment that the presumption gives government officials fair warning?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Tommy Ernest Swate
Attorney at Law

For respondent
Judd Edward Stone II
Stone | Hilton PLLC

Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, April 19, 2021 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Apr 19 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 24 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/16/2021.
  3. Mar 16 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Mary Chapman to respond filed.
  4. Mar 10 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 14, 2021)