Walker v. Poole

DECISION AND ORDER

VICTOR E. BIANCHINI, United States Magistrate Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Petitioner Frederick Walker (“Walker”) filed a pro se petition for a writ of habe-as corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 challenging his 2000 conviction following a jury trial in Monroe County Court on charges of first degree robbery and related offenses. See Petition (Dkt. # 1). This Court subsequently granted petitioner’s motion, filed by retained counsel, to stay the instant habeas corpus proceeding so that petitioner could return to state court to exhaust two claims of ineffective assistance of appellate…