Cotton v. Graham

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK MAURICE COTTON, Petitioner, v. 17-CV-650-LJV-HBS DECISION & ORDER HAROLD GRAHAM, Superintendent Green Haven Correctional Facility, Respondent. On June 22, 2016, the pro se petitioner, Maurice Cotton, submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, alleging (1) that his counsel was ineffective in failing to raise an alibi defense and call alibi witnesses, as well as in failing to elicit testimony from a ballistics-trajectory expert, and (2) in light of his counsel’s failure to elicit the expert testimony, that…