Douglas Dean Scyphers v. Washington

1. Does evidence qualify as newly discovered and material under federal standards when a defendant discovers evidence post-trial - including statements from the issuing judge that he did not sign or authorize a search warrant/ that no original warrant exists/ and no application was filed - corroborated by court records/ requiring invalidation of the warrant/ suppression/ reversal of convictions/ and void all further proceedings after the warrant ? 2. Does a search warrant bearing only a facsimile signature of a judge/ without evidence of actual authorization or an original document/ satisfy the Fourth Amendment's requirement for issuance by a neutral magistarte z particularly where the judge later disavows it ? 3. May a defendant reasonably rely on the facial validity of a search warrant bearing a judge's facsimile signature/ issued by a Judicial Officer/ without pre-trial investigation into its authenticity/ where no basis for doubt existed until post-trial revelations ? 4. Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require suppression of evidence and reversal of convictions where post-trial evidence reveals that state actors may have fabricated a search warrant by affixing a judge's facsimile signature without autorization ? 5. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and this Court's precedent's, must federal courts grant an evidentiary hearing on a state prisoner's Fourth Amendment claim when state courts denied one, despite credible post-conviction evidence that the search warrant was invalid and not discoverable pre-trial ?