Whether a state prisoner has the right to file his own appeal Pro Se under certain conditions after the denial of his ProSe petition for post conviction relief and perceived abandonment through alarming and repeated failures to communicate with his client by Post Conviction Counsel ("PCC").

Whether Defendant's trial lawyer was Ineffective at trial of a 34-year old "Cold Case" for 1st degree murder which was primarily based on DNA evidence proposed by the State of Tennessee ("TN")'s phalanx of DNA experts when counsel was not assisted at trial by a DNA expert to provide the adversarial component for fair trial.

Whether a Defendant state prisoner should be able to raise on post conviction appeal a claim of IATC that sounds in the state and federal constitutions where the state appeal courts have a "understanding" to not allow 'Pro Se" appeals or amendments, even where a nominal counsel of record exists.

Whether the procedural ground on which the state highest court dismissed prisoner's application for permission to appeal (12-14-16) is abuse of discretion or unreasonable for not giving due consideration to cause for prisoner filing his Application Pro Se.

Whether a state prisoner has the right to file his own appeal Pro Se