James Byron Coon v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution
Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254, 260 (1986), and Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336 (2003), where the district court determined in a murder case that an ineffective assistance of counsel claim was exhausted even though the state postconviction claim did not, but the federal claim did assert an expert cause-of-death opinion materially different from that of the State's expert.
Whether a Court of Appeals' denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with this Court's rulings in Vasquez v. Hillery and Miller-El v. Cockrell, where the district court determined in a murder case that an ineffective assistance of counsel claim was exhausted even though the state postconviction claim did not, but the federal claim did assert an expert cause-of-death opinion materially different from that of the State's expert