Cary Michael Lambrix v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

HULL, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Cary Lambrix, a Florida prisoner sentenced to death, appeals the district court’s denial of his pro se “Motion for Appointment of Substitute Collateral Counsel,” under 18 U.S.C. § 3599, to aid him in preparing and filing a second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2254 federal habeas petition based on Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. -, 132 S.Ct. 1309, 182 L.Ed.2d 272 (2012), which announced an equitable rule whereby a federal petitioner may establish cause, in narrow circumstances, to excuse the procedural default of an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim.

Lambrix’s…