Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability.

Whether this court's ruling in Lackawanna v. Coss, 532 U.S. 394(2001) summarily forecloses review of a subsequent ineffective assistance of counsel claim in a later, unrelated case under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668(1984).

Whether a district court presiding over a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 may circumvent review of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim raised under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668(1984) by applying this court's unrelated ruling from Lackawanna County District Attorney v. Coss, 532 U.S. 394(2001).

Whether the district court erred in determining that it could not review the constitutional validity of petitioner's prior conviction in order to adjudicate petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under his current conviction.

Whether the government breached the plea agreement by failing to return the petitioner's suppressed property after he pled guilty and was sentenced.

Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability