I. Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance where counsel failed in the most basic sense to litigate a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel that: (a) petitioner expressly indicated should be raised, or (b) was prominent in the discovery of the defense file, or (c) was clear and obvious in the record.

2. Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance where counsel failed to investigate and interview a known eyewitness whose written police interview evidences support for trial counsel to have chosen a different trial strategy, and for jurors to have convicted of a lesser degree of criminal homicide.

Whether initial-postconviction review counsel provided ineffective assistance