whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assistance at trial

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. This case necessitates an answer to a question of constitutional first law left open in Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722 (1991), and again in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012): “whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assistance at trial.” Id., at 8. 2. And if so, whether this new rule of constitutional law should be applied retroactively to final judgments. Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989). 3. Or, should the Court elect to decide petitioner’s ineffective assistance claim in the first instance, the question is whether petitioner received constitutionally deficient representation at her state trial. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984). i