1. Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred
in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of
the District Court, denying Federal Habeas relief?

2. Whether the lower court unreasonable applied Strickland's
performance prong in context of this case, by simply speculating
on what counsel's rationale may have been, without developing the
central.. & contested .factual issue(s) ... of whether ...counsel made
reasonable investigations or made a reasonable decision that made
the particular investigation unecessary?

3. Whether the state prosecutor's misrepresentation of a T-shirt,
which constituted a vital link in the evidence on which this
petitioner was convicted, violate the petitioner's constitutional
right to a fair trial, irrespective of state evidentiary rules
that allowed it?

Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Court, denying Federal Habeas relief?