Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States
DueProcess
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow precedent violated the petitioner's right to a fair trial
QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court’s failure to follow this Court’s precedence in U.S. v. Griffin, 502 U.S. 46 (1991) and Turner v. U.S., 396 U.S. 398 (1970), when it treated a special verdict form as a general verdict and allowed a conviction to stand on a theory of the case without sufficient evidence, violated Petitioner’s right to a fair trial. 2. Whether the Eighth Circuit’s Opinion denied Petitioner her right to a fair trial by requiring that Petitioner make an additional showing to support her offer of her complete recorded statement under the Rule of Completeness (Fed. R. Evid. 106) after the trial court had already acknowledged that the full statement should be admitted if the Government played portions of it at trial. i