Randolph Parsad v. Charles Greiner, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of New York

POOLER, Circuit Judge.

Randolph Parsad (“petitioner”) appeals from the March 29, 2002 order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Carol Bagley Amon, District Judge) denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We granted a certificate of appealability to determine whether the state court erred in holding that the admission of certain inculpatory statements did not violate petitioner’s rights under the Fifth Amendment and Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). For purposes of this appeal, we…