Paul Glen Everett v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

HULL, Circuit Judge:

Paul Everett, a Florida inmate, filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus, raising multiple challenges to his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. The district court denied Everett’s petition, but granted him a certificate of appealability (“COA”) as to one issue: Whether a law enforcement officer’s request for a consent to search from, or service of an arrest warrant on, a defendant in custody who has invoked the right to counsel violates the Fifth Amendment.

Upon Everett’s motion, this Court expanded the COA to include an additional…