Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense call down the protections of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, thus requiring the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person accused of a violent crime was not engaged in specifically permitted self-defense? Does the Sixth Amendment standard for determining which facts constitute the elements of a crime apply within an appellate court's Fourteenth-Amendment review for sufficiency of the evidence and thus dictate the factual issues that must be considered?

Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was not acting in lawful self-defense when charged with a violent crime, given recent changes to Ohio's self-defense statutory law