Joshua Resendez v. Wendy Knight

ON APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge (in chambers).

Joshua Resendez filed a petition for habeas corpus in the district court. His petition, and his subsequent request for a certificate of ..appealability (“COA”), was denied by the district court. Mr. Resendez has renewed his request for a COA in this court. Because Mr. Resendez’s petition presents a question concerning a’s constitutional right to counsel that we have not yet settled, I grant Mr. Resendez’s application.

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The record in this case does not explain much of Mr. Resendez’s confinement or the…