Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States

Whether denying access to sealed ex parte transcripts, essential for proving actual innocence through alibi witnesses and third-party perpetrator evidence, violates due process and the right to present a defense under Schlupv. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006), and Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia, 448 U.S. 555 (1980), where circuits diverge on transcript unsealing in innocence claims.

Whether the admission of over thirty minutes of highly prejudicial, minimally probative adult pornography evidence violated the Fifth Amendment's fair trial guarantee by inflaming the jury, inconsistent with this Court's recent decision in Andrew v. White, 604 U.S. (2025), and precedents like Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), exacerbating circuit splits on prejudicial evidence in habeas review.

Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, by imposing a heightened standard that forecloses review of substantial constitutional claims in habeas proceedings—including ineffective assistance, due process violations from sealed transcripts, prejudicial evidence, and sufficiency challenges—conflicts with this Court's precedents in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), and Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), amid emerging circuit splits on COA thresholds, and whether this denial perpetuates a national crisis in ensuring uniform constitutional protections in child pornography cases.