Reed v. Texas

1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari review of a hybrid, unrecognized claim regarding a supposed intersection of the Fifth Amendment’s right to not self-incriminate and the Sixth Amendment’s right to confront witnesses that was not pressed or passed upon in state court, has been forfeited through improper evidentiary presentation, and has no merit in any event. 2. Whether the Court has jurisdiction to consider Reed’s false scientific testimony claim, barred by an adequate and independent state law ground, and, if the Court does, whether it should hear an unrecognized constitutional claim that is not supported by the record below. 3. Whether jurisdiction lies to hear an actual innocence claim barred by an adequate and independent state law ground and, if such jurisdiction exists, whether the Court should expend time on a fact-bound claim neither recognized by this Court nor with merit.