In the Supreme Court of the United States

COURTNEY VALLE BISBEE,

Petitioner,

v.

CHARLES L. RYAN, Warden and

THOMAS C. HORNE, Attorney General,

Respondents.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

QUESTIONS PRESENTED

1. Where a state trial judge summarily rejected,

without a hearing, Petitioner’s claim that counsel

was ineffective because he induced Petitioner to

waive her Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial

based upon his personal relationship with that

same judge, is Petitioner, on habeas review, entitled

to an evidentiary hearing?

2. Would reasonable jurists find the district court’s

assessment of the constitutional claims debatable,

warranting a certificate of appealability, where, in

assessing “actual innocence”, the court erroneously

required Petitioner to prove that the offense never

occurred, rather than considering whether it was

“more likely than not that no reasonable juror

would have found petitioner guilty beyond a

reasonable doubt” -- especially where newly

discovered evidence and other facts reveal that the

complainant and a key witness were threatened and

coerced into testifying falsely?