Barresi v. Maloney

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HARRINGTON, Senior District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He argues that he was deprived of rights protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution by the trial judge’s application of the Massachusetts Rape Shield Statute, Mass.GemL. ch. 233, § 21B. As a writ of habeas corpus will not ordinarily issue because of evidentiary errors, petitioner must persuade the Court that, regardless of whether the trial judge’s decisions were correct as a matter of state law, they “so infuse[d] the…