Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where without a jury trial incorrect legal definition of 'knowingly' relieved the state of its requirement to prove every element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt, thus violating petitioner's Fifth, Seventh and Fourteenth Amendment rights

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Plaintiff Mattie Lomax brought this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, alleging that the Defendants violated her constitutional rights during a misdemeanor criminal investigation and trial. Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where with out a jury trial incorrect legal definition of . "knowingly,” in such a way that relieved the state of its requirement to prove every element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt, thus violating petitioner's Fifth, Seventh and Fourteenth Amendment rights to the United States Constitution in question? ii . Ill.