Timothy Brewer v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility

Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of i the District Court, denying Federal Habeas relief?

Whether the lower court unreasonable applied Strickland's performance prong in context of this case, by simply speculating on what counsel's rationale may have been, without developing the central..& contested.... factual issue(s) ... of whether... counsel made reasonable investigations or made a reasonable decision that made the particular investigation unecessary?

Whether the state prosecutor's misrepresentation of a T-shirt, which constituted a vital link in the evidence on which this petitioner was convicted, violate the petitioner's constitutional right to a fair trial, irrespective of state evidentiary rules that allowed it?