Javier Ramos v. Secretary, Florida Dept. Of Corrections

Javier Ramos, a Florida state prisoner, appeals, through counsel, the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court granted a certificate of appealability (“COA”) as to the following five claims: whether Ramos’s counsel, Richmond 1 , was ineffective for failing to (1) object to the state medical examiner’s testimony as scientifically unreliable, speculative, and beyond the medial examiner’s expertise; (2) object to the use of the state’s computer-generated animation on the basis that the state did not lay a proper…