Whether the district court's admission of jailhouse informant testimony violated this Court's jurisprudence on statements against interest

Questions Presented 1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this Court’s jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against interest was violated by the district court’s admitting into evidence the jailhouse informant Farmer’s testimony that co-defendant Miller had told him that Mack killed Francis? 2. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve a conflict among the circuits as to whether plain error is established where an indictment fails to set forth an essential element of an offense, the district court fails to instruct a jury as to an essential element of an offense, and a jury returns a verdict of guilty without any finding that an essential element of the offense has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt? 3. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider a glitch in the sentencing statutes, where the statutes impose a mandatory life sentence “in the case of a killing” and the defendant has been convicted of a conspiracy to murder in which there was no killing? 4. Does the imposition of mandatory life sentences for convictions of conspiracies to murder where no one has suffered physical harm violate the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process, the Eighth Amendment i prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and the separation of powers doctrine? ii