1. Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to the guarantee of equal protection under the laws, protected by the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, protect against the introduction of evidence and argument that calls forth and projects to the jury the poisonous racial stereotype of an African American defendant as a "black brute" who preys on vulnerable white women.

2. Whether lower courts need standards for detecting and remedying the more subtle but just as noxious forms of racism that plague the criminal justice system and violate a defendants' Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to the guarantee of equal protection under the laws, protected by the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, protect against the introduction of evidence and argument that calls forth and projects to the jury the poisonous racial stereotype of an African American defendant as a 'black brute' who preys on vulnerable white women