Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent defendants in capital trials

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), and the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process guarantee of fundamental fairness require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent defendants in capital trials? Whether a prima facie case of racial discrimination is established under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), where a District Attorney targets African-American jurors with questions during jury selection and treats AfricanAmerican and white jurors differently in its use of peremptory strikes? i