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25-4324·CRIMINAL

United States v. Johnnie Moses

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether police unlawfully prolonged traffic stop, whether search of person or vehicle violated Fourth Amendment.

Argument Date
March 25, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Lower Court Judge
Yoon

Panel

Chief Judge Diaz
Judge Wynn
Judge Quattlebaum

Citation

CaseUnited States v. Johnnie Moses, No. 25-4324 (4th Cir. argued Mar. 25, 2026)
PanelDiaz, C.J., Wynn & Quattlebaum, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

1 of 3 cases argued March 25, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

2 opinions remain pending on this panel day. The remaining opinions could come from any panelist who hasn't already been credited with a sibling.

1 of the 3 opinions from this panel has been decided.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 3, 2026 and July 30, 2027, with December 18, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 217 days ago. About 92% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (438 prior subject cases + 7 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →

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