Roberto Lopez -Ortiz is serving life in prison for an offense that no longer exist s. He fully preserve d his challenge to second -degree felony -murder at trial and, while his direct appeal was pending, the state supreme court abolish ed that offense for the same reasons that he asserted .

Consistent with due process, must this substantive change to the offense apply to him on direct review ?

Whether a substantive change to a criminal offense must apply retroactively to a defendant on direct review when the change abolishes the offense for the same reasons the defendant originally challenged it