Luis Jimenez v. Hans Walker, Superintendent of Auburn Correctional Facility

JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Luis Jimenez (“petitioner”) appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Jack B. Weinstein, Judge), entered on November 4, 2003, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Jimenez presses two claims on appeal: (1) the state court’s exclusion of evidence that the murder victim was carrying five ounces of heroin in his pocket denied Jimenez his right to present a meaningful defense and (2) the cumulative effect of trial-court errors denied Jimenez his right to a fundamentally fair…