MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER
WINMILL, District Judge.
By an order issued April 26, 1996, the court requested briefing on the application of Title I of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("the Act") to state prisoner Richard A. Leavitt's petition for writ of habeas corpus. Leavitt, whose case has been pending in the federal district court since January 22, 1993, is seeking habeas corpus relief from his first degree murder conviction...
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