Frederick Luehring, Petitioner v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al.

1. Whether the California Court of Appeal’s summary denial of an original writ petition as “repetitious” under state procedural rule, without addressing the merits of petitioner’s Fifth Amendment double jeopardy and Fourteenth Amendment due process claims, violates the Due Process Clause’s guarantee of meaningful appellate review? 2. Whether holding that a criminal prosecution is not barred by the statute of limitations, where the State dismissed a time-barred case and refiled identical charges against the same defendant based on the same alleged 2018 conduct, merely by changing the characterization of the alleged weapon from “handgun” to semi-automatic rifle without presenting new evidence, violates the Due Process Clause? 3. Whether a State may proceed with a criminal prosecution commenced nearly four years after the alleged offense, where the delay was unreasonable, unexplained, and presumptively prejudicial, without violating the Due Process Clause and the fundamental fairness principles underlying the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial?