Tony Velasquez v. Arthur A. Leonardo, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility

Petitioner-appellant Tony Velasquez appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Charles P. Sifton, J. In a memorandum and order issued in April 1989, Judge Sifton denied petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Appellant is incarcerated under a judgment of the New York State Supreme Court, Kings County, convicting him, after a jury trial, of four counts of rape in the first degree, four counts of rape in the second degree, two counts of sodomy in the first degree, two counts of sodomy in the second…