Rhonda Williams, A/K/A Victoria Tribble v. Elaine Lord, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Rhonda Williams appeals from a judgment of the Eastern District of New York, Kor-man, J., dismissing her petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court rejected her contention that her 1987 conviction in the Supreme Court of New York, Queens County, on charges of second degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, violated her constitutional right to present a defense because the trial court excluded evidence of the victim’s prior violent act. We affirm.

On July 9, 1986, Williams fatally stabbed John Neil Bennett in the chest in a parking lot located at…