Searching boats for suspects
Dustin Oliver Jones v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Dustin Oliver Jones asked the Supreme Court to review whether police could board and search his anchored boat under a misdemeanor warrant without facts suggesting he was aboard, and whether the Ninth Circuit had to consider his challenge to the federal firearm law as applied to him.
- Who it affects
- Jones did not get Supreme Court review of these claims, and the Court made no ruling on whether the search or the Ninth Circuit’s handling of his firearm-law challenge was lawful.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Court refused to hear the case (denied review) and did not decide either issue.
Jones’s petition raised a question about police boarding an anchored boat and another about whether the Ninth Circuit must consider a challenge to how § 922(g)(1) applies to a person.
Question presented
1. Whether a misdemeanor warrant authorizes police to board and search a boat at anchor without concrete facts suggesting the subject of the warrant is on board. 2. Whether the Ninth Circuit’s refusal to consider as-applied challenges to § 922(g) violates this Court’s binding precedent.
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