Tsirizotakis v. LeFevre

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner John Tsirizotakis, a New York State prisoner, appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Jack B. Weinstein, Chief Judge, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging on due process grounds certain aspects of the trial court’s charge to the jury, and challenging on Sixth Amendment grounds *58the failure of his trial and appellate attorneys to call the alleged defects in the charge to the attention of the state courts. The district court ruled that the due process claims could not be raised in a…