Michelle Renee Morton v. Iowa

Whether a wnviction ■ initiated bya-warrant-issued by’amagistrate-who is later adjudicated notneutralanddetached, constitutes astrueturah jurisdictional defect rendering the judgment void ab initio,. such that the judgment cannot be insulated feom review by'State DeferredTJudgment and PostrConviction-Relief (PCR) procedures.

Whether a state may, ;wnsisterd with the Due Process Dlattse and 28 U.S.C. §1257, use Deferred4udgment and PCR rules te bar all state .court review of an alleged structural fbuath AnmridmeHtvfelatioiitnthe initiation of criminal proceedings, leaving an entire class of defendants without any remedy once the defect is discovered*