Cyril Edwards v. E.W. Jones, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York

FEINBERG, Chief Judge:

Cyril Edwards appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Eugene H. Nickerson, J., denying Edwards’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. After a trial in the state court in September 1979, the jury acquitted Edwards of intentional murder, but found him guilty of the lesser included offense of man*752slaughter in the first degree. The jury also found him guilty of felony murder predicated on robbery or attempted robbery. He was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 15 years to life and 121/2 to…