Ricky A. Knapp v. Arthur Leonardo, Superintendent of the Great Meadow Correctional Facility

MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Ricky A. Knapp appeals from a judgment entered July 7, 1993 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Neal P. MeCurn, Judge, that denied Knapp’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and from an order entered August 17, 1993 in that court which denied reconsideration of the court’s judgment.

Knapp’s habeas petition sought to overturn his state court conviction for second degree manslaughter in violation of N.Y.Penal Law § 125.15(1) on the grounds that: (1) the trial court should have granted his request for a change…