Alfred L. Grant v. Robert Hoke and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York

MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Leonard B. Sand, Judge, that denied petitioner-appellant Alfred L. Grant’s application for a writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1988).

We affirm.

BACKGROUND

Grant was convicted in 1980 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County, of attempted murder in the second degree, N.Y. Penal Law §§ 125.-25(1), 110.00 (McKinney 1987); assault in the first degree, id. § 120.10(1); and two counts of robbery in the first degree, id. §…