Abrahim Fata v. Pennsylvania

Whether the Fourteenth Amendments Due Process Clause prohibits a state appellate court from applying a discretionary procedural rule to find an appeal "waived" when a pro se litigant has substantially complied with the rule's substantive requirements and the Commonwealth shows no prejudice.

Whether the state's refusal to review a sentencing record containing extensively materially false information-specifically a false allegation of stalking a minor which the trial court admitted it should not consider-violates the fundamental right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard when that refusal is based solely on a structural formatting error in a pro se brief.