Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED: 1. Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's rights under the Due Process and Equal : Protection clauses of theFourteenth Amendment, as well as I.D.0.C's own Policy 02-04-101, by denying them an impartial decision maker in a DHB hearing, if such denial was retaliatory and ' vindictive based on the history between the plaintiff and Hearing Officer LT.A.Castaneda. 2. Whether this case presents unique circumstances that justify the plaintiff's delayed filing of an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals, which ultimately led to the dismissal of their appeal for lack of jurisdiction, thereby warranting the consideration of a writ of certiorari. 4