Tanner Lance King v. United States
HabeasCorpus
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for a §2255 claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations was irreconcilable with controlling precedent
Whether the Fifth Circuit ’s denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying Mr. King's §2255 claim that counsel was constitutionally ineffective during the plea negotiation stage because the record did not conclusively negate the factual predicates for the claim, and because no evidentiary hearing was held is irreconcilable with controlling precedent, such that this Court should remand to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit with instructions to issue a certificate of appealability?