OPINION
CHIN, District Judge.
Pro se petitioner Gilbert Rivera brings this petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was convicted on July 19, 1996, after a jury trial in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, of murder in the second degree. He was sentenced on September 10, 1996 to a term of imprisonment of 25 years to life.
Petitioner contests his conviction on the following...
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