Unspecified legal dispute
Stellwagen v. Florida
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Gerard F. Stellwagen’s case against Florida is pending before the Supreme Court.
- What's at stake
- Stellwagen’s challenge to the warrant remains unresolved because the Supreme Court has not agreed to review it.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The information provided does not say what the dispute is about or what action the Court has taken.
The petition raises three Fourth Amendment questions: whether the evidence was too old, whether it linked the suspected offense to the home, and whether the warrant allowed too broad a search of devices.
Question presented
1. Staleness. Whether a single, isolated transmission of child pornography – here, one image sent roughly eight months before the warrant issued – becomes categorically “not stale” for purposes of probable cause simply because digital files are capable of indefinite storage, even where the affidavit contains no evidence that the suspect is a “collector” who retains such material. 2. Nexus to the residence. Whether evidence that an online child-pornography offense was committed through an email account associated with a suspect, without evidence tying that activity to the suspect’s home (such as an IP address for the device used), establishes the “fair probability” that evidence will be found in the home that the Fourth Amendment requires. 3. Particularity and overbreadth. Whether, in light of Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), the Fourth Amendment’s particularity requirement permits a warrant to authorize the seizure and forensic search of every electronic device and all data in a residence based on probable cause as to a single identified file.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to hear the case. The petition was distributed for a Dec. 4, 2026 conference, but that is not a grant of review or a promised decision date.
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