Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory statements was an unreasonable application of Strickland-v-Washington?
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1) Whether the State Court’s ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner’s inculpatory statements was an unreasonable application of Strickland v. Washington? 2) Whether the State Court permitting a lay witness to translate a conversation between that witness and Petitioner, deprived Petitioner of due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution? 3) Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals should have granted Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on either of these issues? ii