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Debra Jones, Individually and as Natural Parent of Todd R. Murray, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Todd R. Murray, et al. v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2024-2053 · judgment April 24, 2026
(petition-stage, structural)
Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Does the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution permit an officer at a homicide crime scene to take control of all substantial evidence (here, including one of the two handguns fired at the scene), or is the evidence that may be seized limited to evidence against a person for whom the officer has established probable cause of commission of a crime?
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Does a person who comes to a closed shooting homicide investigation scene and takes possession of one of the two guns at that scene have a reasonable expectation of privacy barring the investigator from taking that gun?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jeffrey Scott Rasmussen
Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen LLP
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
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Proceedings
- Oct 12 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 16, 2026)