1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state appellate court to affirm a judgment depriving a litigant of property and impose procedural forfeitures based on materially conflicting official records, where the litigant timely requested settlement and correction of the record but no court determined which version accurately reflected what was filed, heard, or decided.

2. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a state court to resolve disputed, outcome-determinative facts and order final distribution of property through findings first announced after an argument-only hearing, where no testimony was taken, the court muted the affected party during opposing counsel’s factual presentation, refused her request to rebut those assertions one by one with identified evidence, and entered final judgment without addressing her timely, evidence-supported objections to those findings. |

Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Ms. Hickman’s appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in her Plea Agreement. B. The basis for relief from this Court.

After the United States Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit dismissed Ms. Hickman’s appeal, this Court rendered its decision in Hunter v. United States, 608 U.S. 2026 WL 1751815 (June 18, 2026). Hunter establishes that a defendant/appellant can challenge the enforceability of a waiver of appeal provision “when it would result in a miscarriage of justice[.|” /d. at 4. That holding is contrary to prior Fifth Circuit precedent. Therefore, we ask this Court to grant this Petition, vacate Ms. Hickman’s sentence, and remand the case to the Fifth Circuit to decide whether enforcing the instant waiver of appeal provision would result in a miscarriage of justice.

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