David Calhoun v. United States
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Could jurists of reason debate the district court's resolution or conclude the issue presented is adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further, with respect to the denial of Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the district court found the government committed multiple breaches of but had found the harmless under the standard set forth in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750 (1946)?
Is a Sixth Amendment claim of denial of counsel of choice subject to procedural default where the trial court fails to hold a hearing on the issue prior to the denial?
Where the Court of Appeals conceded that the record was not developed as to the reason why the trial court denied Petitioner his right to his chosen counsel, was it error for said Court of Appeals to find that Petitioner procedurally defaulted his Sixth Amendment claim of denial of counsel of choice?
Whether the district court's resolution of the petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process claim was correct, given the government's multiple breaches of conduct and the harmless error standard