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 the District Court, denying Federal Habeas relief?

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. 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 : . the District Court, denying Federal Habeas relief? oo 2. 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. 4 reasonable investigations or made a reasonable decision that made | the particular investigation unecessary? , : 3. 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? ~ se