Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
1. Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably intertwined initial 28 U.S.C. § 2254 dockets pertaining to the same underlying convictions and death sentences, where failure to do so frustrates his opportunity for a full, fair, and complete round of initial habeas review?
2. Given this Court's precedent in Martel v. Clair, 565 U.S. 648 (2012), and Christeson v. Roper, 574 U.S. 373 (2015), could reasonable jurists debate the district court's failure to appoint conflict-free counsel where the court's own rulings indicated present counsel's prior performance and conflict-free representation was at issue?
Whether reasonable jurists could debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably intertwined initial 28 U.S.C. § 2254 dockets and failure to appoint conflict-free counsel in a capital case