United States v. Webster

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Bruce Webster requests a certificate of appealability (“COA”) for issues the district court, which granted a COA on two issues, deemed unworthy of collateral review. Because Webster has failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right, we deny his application.

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In 1996, a federal jury convicted Webster of, and sentenced him to death for, three offenses — kidnapping resulting in death, conspiring to kidnap, and using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence — for his role in the shocking and exceedingly brutal kidnapping, rape,…