1. As a Question of First Impression, consistent with Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 (2009), Williams v. Pennsylvania, 579 U.S. 1 (2016), and Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Lavoie, 475 U.S. 818 (1986)) does the Due Process Clause of Fourteenth Amendment examinable through established constitutional, statutory, and ethics rules, apply to disqualify or otherwise require an evidentiary hearing, when it is serendipitously discovered for the first time during a state court appeal, heightened with strong proof this matter constitutes “extreme facts” rising to a Constitutional level, when the single-page final judgment order, purportedly entered by a qualified retired senior judge assigned the case, was instead under the objective test in Caperton, done by an apparent categorically ineligible for recall former jurist also practicing law as an attorney?

2. Should Summary Reversal and Remand be issued after the Maryland Supreme Court, recently adopted the need for greater specificity in Statutory Attorney Fee “Memoranda” in Sugarloaf All. v. Frederick Co., No. 32, Sept. Term 2025 (Dec. July 14, 2026), specifically argued below by Petitioner as legal error?

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QUESTIONS PRESENTED Has the First Circuit impermissibly relied on a sentencing guideline application note’s caption to override its own unqualified text? Does “referenced to” a sentencing guideline under USSG § 2B1.1 sweep in offenses only indirectly connected to it, as the First Circuit held? May a court treat “personally causing” a victim’s financial hardship as satisfied by mere participation in the scheme that caused it? Did the First Circuit misapply the wire-fraud statute by reaching a transaction whose fraud, victim, and perpetrators were all located abroad?

1. In a prosecution for a violent crime in aid of racketeering, does the United States District Judge have the discretion to bifurcate the element which requires an underlying predicate crime from the elements of enterprise and pattern of racketeering?

2. May the court sustain a conviction for VICAR murder when there is insufficient evidence to prove each element of the underlying state crime?

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