Cooper v. McNeil

ORDER

VIRGINIA M. HERNANDEZ COVINGTON, District Judge.

J. Status

Petitioner Jason J. Cooper, an inmate of the Florida penal system who is proceeding pro se and informa pauperis, initiated this action by filing a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. # 1) (hereinafter Petition) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on October 30, 2006. Petitioner challenges a 2003 state court (Duval County, Florida) judgment of conviction for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on the following grounds: (1) ineffective assistance of trial counsel for counsel’s (a) failure to impeach Officer Steinberg at the…