MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER
SPATT, District Judge.
Rosie Smith ("Smith" or the "petitioner") by a petition dated February 28, 2002, and filed on March 6, 2002, seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In papers dated May 9, 2002, the respondent seeks dismissal of the petition as untimely.
I. BACKGROUND
On October 2, 1996, a judgment was entered in the County Court, Suffolk County (Vaughn, J.), convicting the...
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