Roy Wilford Minton v. Secretary, DOC

Roy Wilford Minton is a Florida prison inmate. He was convicted in 1993 on three counts of sexual battery upon a child under 12 years of age, one count of a lewd act upon or in the presence of a child, and one' count of false imprisonment of a child. After exhausting his state remedies, he petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus. The court denied his petition, and issued a certificate of appealability (“COA”) on one issue: whether petitioner’s lawyer rendered ineffective assistance of counsel “in failing to object to the expert testimony of the Child Protection Team Witness,…