Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial when the trial court made multiple comments that reflected that it conflated the standards for self-defense and second degree murder in Illinois, resulting in the court imposing a greater burden of proof on the Petitioner for second degree murder, by injecting the elements of self-defense into its verdict.

Whether the Illinois Appellate Court and Illinois Supreme Court have allowed a clear miscarriage of justice to persist by failing to correct the legal standards entangled between self-defense and second-degree murder with petitioners appeal.

Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial