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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

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 Although counsel’s notice of appeal was timely filed, counsel did not file a request for 1

certificate of appealability until this court required counsel to set forth the specific grounds of the

appeal. See Order, filed on January 24, 2007, following Ninth Circuit’s limited remand, filed in

this court on January 16, 2007.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FLOYD LOWE,

Petitioner, No. CIV S-02-0882 LKK GGH P

vs.

A. K. SCRIBNER, Warden, et al., 

Respondent. ORDER

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Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding with counsel, timely filed a notice of appeal

of this court's August 29, 2006, denial of his application for a writ of habeas corpus. Before

petitioner can appeal this decision, a certificate of appealability must issue. 28 U.S.C. 1

§ 2253(c); Fed. R. App. P. 22(b).

A certificate of appealability may issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 “only if the

applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right.” 28 U.S.C.

§ 2253(c)(2). The certificate of appealability must “indicate which specific issue or issues

satisfy” the requirement. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3).

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 Except for the requirement that appealable issues be specifically identified, the standard 2

for issuance of a certificate of appealability is the same as the standard that applied to issuance of

a certificate of probable cause. Jennings, at 1010.

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A certificate of appealability should be granted for any issue that petitioner can

demonstrate is “‘debatable among jurists of reason,’” could be resolved differently by a different

court, or is “‘adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.’” Jennings v. Woodford,

290 F.3d 1006, 1010 (9th Cir. 2002) (quoting Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880, 893 (1983)).

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Petitioner has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right in

the following issues presented in the instant petition: 1) Does petitioner’s conviction for felon in

possession of a firearm violate due process because it is based on a jury verdict after a trial found

by the state court to have been infected by substantial constitutional error as to all other verdicts

rendered at that trial? 2) If petitioner’s due process rights were thereby violated, was appellate

counsel’s failure to raise that issue on appeal ineffective assistance of counsel? 3) Does

petitioner’s life sentence for the status offense of felon in possession of a firearm violate the

Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment or the Fourteenth

Amendment’s protection of due process?

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that a certificate of appealability is

issued in the present action.

DATED: March 6, 2007.

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