Whether Pope and Isom's significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as the trial judge in Isom's unrelated coram nobis hearing

QUESTION PRESENTED Sam Pope, as elected prosecutor for Arkansas’s Tenth Judicial District, brought charges against Kenneth Isom three times in the span of 13 months. Isom was fully acquitted by separate juries on two of those charges. After being found guilty ona third charge, Isom was lawfully paroled. Hearing of Isom’s release, Pope lobbied the Governor unsuccessfully for Isom’s parole to be rescinded and for Isom to be returned to prison. The question presented is: Whether Pope and Isom’s significant adversarial history created an unconstitutional risk of bias under the due process clause when Pope later sat as the trial judge in Isom’s unrelated coram nobis hearing. i