Ray Agard v. Leonard Portuondo, Superintendent of Fishkill Correctional Facility

OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant Ray Agard appeals from the denial of the writ of habeas corpus dated March 15, 1996, and entered March 21, 1996, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Reena Raggi, Judge.

Petitioner was convicted on February 25, 1991, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County, Justice Arthur J. Cooperman presiding, of first degree sodomy and two counts of third degree weapons possession. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of 10 to 20 years’ and 3]é to 7 years’ imprisonment. Following the December 20, 1993, dismissal…