Joseph Prystash v. Lorie Davis, Director

GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:

Two decades after being sentenced to death for being the middleman in a niur-der-for-hire, Joseph Andrew Prystash seeks a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He asks us to certify, the following questions: (1) whether there was cause for the procedural default of his Batson claim; (2) whether the State’s withholding of evidence about the involuntariness of a codefendant’s confession established a Brady violation; (3) whether the trial court violated his right to present mitigation evidence…