1. Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an
indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for claims of
ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised in a post-conviction relief petition to be
reviewed on its merits.

2. Whether newly court-appointed trial counsel is constitutionally ineffective when
abandoning an established and agreed upon defense strategy days before the start of
a jury trial without informing the criminal defendant.

3. Whether cumulative instances of ineffective assistance of trial counsel denied a
criminal defendant a constitutionally and fundamentally fair trial.

4. Whether a prosecutor 's knowing use of false testimony, and the trial court 's use
of the same false testimony for sentencing purposes, is a due process violation that
makes a criminal trial proceeding constitutionally unfair.

Whether it is unconstitutional for a state court to make it mandatory that an indigent, pro se prisoner provide an attorney affidavit in order for claims of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel raised in a post-conviction-relief petition to be reviewed on its merits