Jomo Williams v. United States
DueProcess
Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1) Were Petitioner’s Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated where the district court, not only permitted the prosecution to insert its personal opinion during summation, but also precluded Petitioner from introducing evidence of a 20 minute video of the government’s only noncooperator witness making a statement to prosecutors that significantly diverged from his trial testimony, failing to apply the presumption of admissibility required by Federal Rule of Evidence 402 and disregarding Petitioner’s rights to present evidence and confront witnesses? 2) Were petitioner’s due process rights violated by the district court’s commission of a blatant violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(2) with the result that Petitioner was convicted and sentenced without any inquiry into whether there was an impartial jury or whether any prejudicial information was provided to the jury during improper communications between the Court Security Officer and the jury? 1