Bradford Wedra v. Eugene S. Lefevre, Warden, Clinton Correctional Facility

MESKILL, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Leval, J., entered on April 22,1992. The district court denied Wedra’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus sought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Relying on the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Coleman v. Thompson, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640, reh’g denied, — U.S. -, 112 S.Ct. 27, 115 L.Ed.2d 1109 (1991), it concluded that Wedra’s claims were procedurally defaulted. We affirm.

Wedra urges that Coleman is distinguishable because his state…