MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ELFVIN, District Judge.
The petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus for relief from state custody — see 28 U.S.C. § 2254 —, asserting that his state court convictions were constitutionally tainted by an improper jury instruction.
The petitioner was convicted, after a jury trial in the New York State Supreme Court for Bronx County, of murder in the second degree, manslaughter in the first degree, two...
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