Pollard v. Florida Department of Corrections

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 22-14290-CIV-ALTMAN KENNETH W. POLLARD, Petitioner, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent. ____________________________________/ ORDER The Petitioner, Kenneth W. Pollard, was convicted and sentenced in state court for unlawfully procuring and using the personal identification information of another person. See Judgment [ECF No. 9-1] at 27. In his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Pollard advances one ground for relief: The state trial court (he says) “[f]ailed to conduct a competency hearing before…