Augustine Petrillo v. Stephen O'Neill

CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellant petitioner Augustine Petrillo (“Petrillo”) appeals from a final order of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts denying his ha-beas corpus petition. 1 Petrillo was convicted in state court of one count each of aggravated rape, kidnapping, and threatening to commit assault. In his petition, he argues that the Massachusetts Appeals Court failed to apply the appropriate constitutional standard in reviewing an evi-dentiary error committed at his trial. We affirm the denial of the habeas petition.

I. Background

The facts of the…