Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for claims of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel raised in a post-conviction-relief petition to be reviewed on its merits

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised in a post-conviction relief petition to be reviewed on its merits. 2. Whether newly court-appointed trial counsel is constitutionally ineffective when abandoning an established and agreed upon defense strategy days before the start of a jury trial without informing the criminal defendant. 3. Whether cumulative instances of ineffective assistance of trial counsel denied a criminal defendant a constitutionally and fundamentally fair trial. 4. Whether a prosecutor’s knowing use of false testimony, and the trial court’s use of the same false testimony for sentencing purposes, is a due process violation that makes a criminal trial proceeding constitutionally unfair.