Right to effective defense lawyers

1. Whether a court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealibility by effectively resolving disputed merits and factual-development questions against petitioner, where the petitioner identified existing, record-specific evidence that could support substantial Sixth Amendments claims, instead of asking only whether reasonable jurists could debate the district court's disposition under Miller-El V. Cockrell and Buck V. Davis. 2. (a). Whether a federal district court violates due process and the dear mandate of 22 U.S.C. 2254 (e) (2) by denying discovery, expansion of the record and an evidentiary hearing where a dear dispute of material facts exist and the state prisoner has diligently attempted to develop the factual basis of an ineffective assistance claim where counsel's failure left the reord devoid of petitioner's mental state, the principal shooter's account, untested forensic evidence and waived a valid prosecutorial misconduct mistrial. 3. (b). And whether this same court may reject Strickland prejudice by considering each alleged dificiency and each omitted item in isolation without evaluating the totality of the available evidence and the combined change in.the evidentiary picture.