Macleod v. McCarthy

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ROBERT MACLEOD, DECISION AND ORDER Petitioner, 1:20-CV-01680 EAW V. TIMOTHY McCARTHY, Superintendent, Respondent. I. INTRODUCTION Pro se petitioner Robert MacLeod (“Petitioner”) seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Dkt. 1). Petitioner challenges the constitutionality of the judgment entered against him on March 24, 2017, in New York State, Niagara County Court (Murphy, J.), following a jury verdict convicting him of, inter alia, second-degree robbery as a sexually motivated felony (New York Penal Law (“P.L.”’)…