Cook v. Pearlman

DECISION AND ORDER

MARRERO, District Judge.

Pro se petitioner Anthony Cook (“Cook”) filed a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, on August 2, 2001 (the “Petition”), attacking his June 30, 1998 state court conviction of second degree burglary and petit larceny, violating New York Penal Laws § 140.55 and § 155.25, respectively. Cook claims that the conviction violated his right to due process of law, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, because the trial court erroneously permitted the State to admit a particular videotape into…