Dodd v. Clarke

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Richmond Division ROBERT JOHN DODD, Petitioner, v. Civil No. 3:21¢v259 (DJN) HAROLD W. CLARKE, Respondent. MEMORANDUM OPINION Robert John Dodd, a Virginia state prisoner proceeding with counsel, brings this petition pursuant to

28 U.S.C. § 2254

(“§ 2254 Petition,” ECF No. 4)! challenging his convictions in the Circuit Court for the County of Chesterfield, Virginia (“Circuit Court”). Specifically, Dodd was convicted in the Circuit Court of three counts of forcible sodomy of a child under the age of thirteen, three counts of…