In Re Seth McKee

Whether a criminal prosecution may proceed when the allegations underlying that prosecution originate in a judicial proceeding in which jurisdiction was never lawfully established.

Whether exhaustion of state remedies is ex­ cused where court officials prevented Petitioner from maintaining a state extraordinary-writ proceeding necessary to obtain review of the jurisdictional defect.

Whether abstention doctrines such as Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), apply where the predicate proceeding never acquired jurisdiction in the first instance.