Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not written by or belonging to petitioner or any of his co-defendants in the trial conflicted with established federal and state case law and violated petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights.

Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not written by or belonging to petitioner or any of his co-defendants in the trial conflicted with established federal and state case law and violated petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights