Antonio Prophet v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex
DueProcess HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure Securities
1. When a federal criminal conspiracy initiated in the State court is then carried over into 2254 federal habeas corpus proceedings by a State Respondent's deliberate failure to include in its "Answer and Exhibits" court-filed documents required by Rule 5 to be included therein — court-filed documents which were suppressed and secreted in the State court specifically because said documents were the only ones in the entire State court record that timely and precisely raised the "federal question"—do such actions constitute a fraud on the federal court?
Whether a state respondent's deliberate failure to include required court-filed documents in federal habeas corpus proceedings, which documents were suppressed in state court and raised federal questions, constitutes fraud on the federal court