Cary Michael Lambrix v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

HULL, Circuit Judge:

On February 1, 2016, Petitioner Cary Lambrix filed a motion for a certificate of appealability (“COA”) in this Court. Lambrix, a Florida prisoner sentenced to death, seeks to appeal the district court’s order denying his “Motion for Relief from Judgment Pursuant to Rule 60(b).” Although Lambrix’s initial 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition was denied in 1992, Lambrix’s Rule 60(b) motion sought to vacate that 1992 judgment.

Lambrix has since filed two amended motions for a COA in this Court, in which Lambrix reasserts or readopts the claims raised in his initial motion. In this order…