Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires judges to disclose and disqualify at all stages of a criminal proceeding, including collateral appellate proceedings, when: (1) extreme facts are present which would allow a party to reasonably question the trial and post-conviction judges' impartiality; and/or (2) the extreme facts present an unconstitutional risk of or appearance of judicial bias at both the trial and post-conviction appellate stages?

Whether Article III courts sitting in habeas to review a state court conviction owe deference under the AEDPA when it is established the presiding judge had an undisclosed and disqualifying unconstitutional risk and appearance of bias?

Whether there is an exception to waiver of claims when a party's waiver is not voluntary, e.g., after demanding their trial and/or appellate attorney make certain and nonfrivolous challenges to a judge, prosecutor, or fellow attorney when the challenged party's participation in those proceedings presents an issue of per se structural error, but their attorney refuses because challenges of a judge's impartiality, against a prosecutor, and/or against a fellow attorney are highly disfavored and often come with consequences of retaliation that can negatively affect that attorney's other clients, cases, and income?

Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to judicial bias and misconduct