1. Whether this Court should adopt an objectively reasonable approach when evaluating whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supported by manifest necessity and resolve the split in the approaches as to the level of scrutiny utilized among the First, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits.
2. Whether the standard of review of a trial court's determination of manifest necessity for a mistrial under Arizona v. Washinton, 434 U.S. 497, 508-09 (1978), requires a higher level of scrutiny than the most relaxed scrutiny utilized by the Sixth Circuit in this case, when the mistrial is in part based on the absence of critical prosecution evidence, as would be determined in the Fourth Circuit under Seay v. Connor, 927 F.3d 776 (4th Cir. 2019).
Whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supported by manifest necessity