Paul Clark v. James Stinson, Superintendent

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-Appellant Paul Clark appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Trager, J.) denying his 1997 petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Clark was sentenced in 1982 in a New York state court to thirty-three and one-third years to life in prison, a jury having found him guilty of murder, attempted murder, and criminal possession of a weapon. Clark’s petition alleges ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, contending that if not for his attorney’s failure to raise several…