Whether due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and relevant civil rights laws prohibit a state Supreme Court from denying an African American petitioner entitled to a Faretta hearing the right to have his trial completed by a particular tribunal, and prohibits being denied expeditious consideration when denies trial to elect representation after 12 years without a Faretta hearing while held without bond.

Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by denying petitioner's request for a new trial based on racial discrimination in jury selection