U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
United States v. Jameel Tanzil
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Kevin Gafford Ritz
- Filed
- Nov. 20, 2025
- Case
- United States v. Jameel Tanzil
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0534n.06 Case No. 25-1102 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Nov 20, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED ) STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR v. ) THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ) MICHIGAN JAMEEL ANTHONY DION TANZIL, ) Defendant-Appellee. ) OPINION ) Before: NALBANDIAN, MATHIS, and RITZ, Circuit Judges. RITZ, Circuit Judge. Jameel Tanzil is a convicted felon suspected of involvement in new crimes. Federal law enforcement personnel secured a warrant to search Tanzil’s cell phone for evidence of those crimes. After a grand jury indicted Tanzil for being a felon in possession of ammunition, he challenged the validity of the warrant and sought to suppress the fruits of the resulting search. The district court agreed with Tanzil that the warrant lacked probable cause and granted his motion to suppress. The government appealed. Its appeal sits at the center of a Fourth Amendment dispute this court has not resolved: What is the required probable-cause “nexus” for a warrant to search a cell phone? But we decline to resolve that issue here, because the officers who …
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