OPINION
Petitioner David Shaw pleaded guilty to five counts of Robbery in the First Degree in 1980. He now petitions for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. His petition challenges the trial court’s decision not to suppress evidence and identifications that followed from his warrantless arrest and that eventually led to his guilty plea. In addition, he contends that he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel. For the reasons hereinafter stated, the Court denies the petition.
BACKGROUND
A. Facts.
Petitioner challeges a judgment entered October 29, 1980 in the Supreme Court of New York, Bronx County, (Grey, J.), on his plea of guilty to five counts of Robbery in the First Degree, see N.Y. Penal Law § 160.15.
During December 1979, Detective Taylor began investigating a series of armed robberies that had occurred at retail food stores in the Bronx. James Preston, a suspect in the robberies, told Taylor that “Dave” who lived at 168th Street and Third Avenue in the Bronx was responsible for the robberies. After determining the last name of this second suspect by interviewing the landlord of the apartment building, Taylor ordered photographs of David Shaw, the petitioner. On January 17,1980, an employee of a store that had been robbed about a month earlier picked Shaw's photograph out of an array. On January 24, 1980, Police Officer Cote and *861 Detectives Taylor, Schudde and McGary traveled to the apartment in the Bronx where Shaw resided.
The parties dispute the circumstances of Shaw’s arrest at the apartment. Respondents contend that Detective Taylor knocked on the apartment door and announced that he was a police officer. One of the apartment’s occupants supposedly came to the door and looked through the peephole. Detective McGary, who had been stationed on the roof, then alerted the others that petitioner had escaped through a rear window and was climbing a fire escape to the roof. McGary arrested Shaw on the roof. Shaw contends, by contrast, that the police forced their way into the apartment. Pam Milton, the lessee of the apartment, testified that petitioner looked out the door, walked back to the bedroom and fled the apartment. She admitted that the detectives arrested Shaw outside the apartment. By Milton’s account, however, the police forced the apartment door open. William Prince, the building superintendent testified that he repaired the door several days after the incident by replacing a pin in the door hinge.
Following his arrest, Shaw was advised of his constitutional rights and taken to the precinct house to be interviewed by Detective Mockler. Mockler again read appellant his Miranda warnings. During this questioning, Shaw admitted having robbed a McDonald’s restaurant, but he denied involvement in any of the robberies under investigation. Three robbery victims subsequently identified petitioner in a lineup.
Before trial, Shaw moved to suppress the statements he had made to Mockler and to strike proposed identification testimony on the ground that they were the tainted products of an unlawful arrest. On September 15 through September 20, Justice Grey held an omnibus hearing on Shaw’s motions. In a written decision, the judge held that the photographic identification procedure employed by the police in soliciting information concerning the rash of robberies was not suggestive and furthermore that the prospective in-court identification of Shaw rested on an independent source. The trial judge also held that Shaw’s arrest was constitutional because the police had apprehended him on the roof of the apartment building. After failing to have the identifications and other evidence suppressed, Shaw pleaded guilty to five counts of Robbery in the First Degree. On the basis of a plea bargain Shaw was sentenced to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from four and one-half to nine years.
B. Procedural History.
The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, unanimously affirmed without opinion petitioner’s conviction on December 3, 1981.
People v. Shaw,
Following the final denial of his motion to vacate judgment, Shaw filed the instant petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He alleges first that the trial court admitted tainted evidence that had been seized after his warrantless, and henceforth unlawful, arrest in violation of the Fourth Amendment and secondly that he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel at both the *862 trial and appellate stages of his prosecution. 1
DISCUSSION
Application for habeas corpus relief may not be addressed on the merits by a federal court until the petitioner has exhausted available state court remedies.
See Picard v. Connor,
The exhaustion requirement is not satisfied unless the federal claim has been “fairly presented” to the state courts. In order to have fairly presented his federal claim to the state courts the petitioner must have informed the state court of both the factual and the legal premises of the claim he asserts in federal court.
Daye v. Attorney General,
(a) reliance on pertinent federal cases employing constitutional analysis, (b) reliance on state cases employing constitutional analysis in like fact situations, (c) assertion of the claim in terms so particular as to call to mind a specific right protected by the Constitution, [or] (d) allegation of a pattern of facts that is well within the mainstream of constitutional litigation.
As noted above, petitioner here raises two constitutional issues. He asserts that the trial judge misapplied
Payton v. New York,
A. Stone v. Powell.
Having reviewed the record, and petitioner’s arguments, the Court concludes that whatever the underlying merits of petitioner’s argument that his arrest was unlawful on the basis of
Payton v. New York, supra,
the doctrine of
Stone v. Powell,
In
Stone v. Powell,
the United States Supreme Court held that “the Constitution does not require that a state prisoner be granted federal habeas corpus relief on the ground that evidence obtained in an unconstitutional search or seizure was introduced at his trial,” so long as “the State has provided an opportunity for full and fair litigation of [the] Fourth Amendment claim.”
The focus of
Stone v. Powell
is the word “opportunity.” If the state provides no procedure for defendants to redress Fourth Amendment violations, federal habeas corpus remains available. If, however, the state by enacting a statutory mechanism for the suppression of evidence obtained by unlawful search and seizure, has provided an opportunity fully and fairly to litigate Fourth Amendment issues, the federal courts may not reexamine those issues on habeas corpus review.
McPhail v. Warden, Attica Correctional Facility, supra,
When the state provides a facially adequate procedure, a petitioner cannot gain review of a Fourth Amendment claim simply by arguing that the federal court would have reached a different result.
Gates v. Henderson,
New York provides criminal defendants an opportunity to litigate Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues before trial. See N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 710. In light of New York’s procedure, then, federal scrutiny of Shaw’s Fourth Amendment claims is not warranted unless he demonstrates that he was in fact precluded from utilizing it by an unconscionable breakdown in the review process.
Neither
Gates
nor subsequent decisions within the Second Circuit has greatly elaborated the standard of unconscionable breakdown. The citation within
Gates
to
Frank v. Mangum,
*865
In this case, Shaw availed himself of the procedure to attack the legality of his arrest under
Payton v. New York, supra,
at a pretrial suppression hearing under section 710 of New York’s Criminal Procedure Law,
see
Omnibus Hearing Transcript at 35, 52, 57-61, 109-112, 151, 187A-192, 200-216 (Grey, Justice) (“Tr.”), on direct appeal,
see
Petitioner’s Brief to the Appellate Division at 4, 9-15, and in his motion to vacate the sentence. In further submissions to the Court dated May 27, 1986 and July 30, 1986, petitioner nonetheless urges the Court to disregard the doctrine of
Stone v. Powell
since the lack of effective trial or appellate counsel deprived him of a full and fair hearing on his Fourth Amendment claim in the state courts. Where petitioners have either taken advantage of an opportunity to present Fourth Amendment claims or deliberately bypassed the procedure, however, courts within this circuit have refused to equate ineffective assistance of counsel with unconscionable breakdown.
Jackson v. Scully,
B. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.
While the Court may not sidestep
Stone v. Powell
by equating ineffective assistance of counsel with unconscionable breakdown, it may nonethless consider the ineffective assistance claim independently. In its recent decision in
Kimmelman v. Morrison,
— U.S. -,
While petitioner may thus raise the claim, to prove incompetence and prejudice, he must overcome the strong presumption
*866
that his counsel’s performance, at both the trial and appellate levels, fell within the “wide range of professional assistance.”
Kimmelman v. Morrison, supra,
— U.S. at-,
The sole instance of trial counsel’s alleged incompetence that petitioner argues is that he did not effectively assist in the investigation and preparation of his defense or argue Payton v. New York, supra, at the suppression hearing, thereby failing to preserve the claim for appeal. While a single grievous error, such as failing to seek suppresison of the contested evidence that prompted a guilty plea, might support a claim of ineffective assistance, the Court need not consider that argument. The transcript of the suppression hearing belies petitioner’s assertion that counsel never argued Payton. Counsel cross-examined each of the participating police officers who testified about the circumstances of Shaw’s arrest to lay the foundation for an argument based on Payton. See Tr. at 35, 57-61, 109-112, 151, 187A-192. After recapitulating the hearing testimony, counsel argued before Justice Grey that Payton applied on the circumstances of petitioner’s arrest, that the evidence that flowed from the allegedly unlawful arrest should be suppressed, and that Payton applied retroactively to petitioner’s arrest. 7 The prose *867 cutor distinguished Payton on the facts that petitioner was not the lessee of the apartment and that he was arrested on the roof of the apartment building, not in the apartment. He argued alternatively against retroactive application of the case. See Tr. at 203-207.
While the trial judge’s decision on the motion to suprress did not cite Payton, his holding that petitioner’s “arrest ... on the roof of the apartment building and not in the apartment was in accordance with due process and not in violation of defendant’s constitutional rights” necessarily rejected the argument counsel had competently made. After reviewing counsel’s performance at .the suppression hearing, the Court concludes that Shaw has, without question, failed to establish ineffective assistance at the trial level.
Shaw obtained new counsel for his appeal. As Point I of the appeal, counsel argued that “Since Appellant’s Warrantless Arrest Was Illegal Under Payton v. New York, The Statement He Made And The Subsequent Photographic And Corporeal Identifications Must Be Suppressed As Fruits of The Illegal Arrest.” Petitioner’s Brief to the Appellate Division at 10. Counsel stated the facts of the arrest, reviewed Payton and the holdings of other similar cases concerning the Fourth Amendment, and vigorously disputed the trial judge’s decision that since the officers had made the arrest outside the apartment Payton did not apply to Shaw. Id. at 4, 10-15. The state responded to the argument. Brief for Respondent State of New York at 9, People v. Shaw, supra. Appellate counsel made an adequate and even forceful argument based on Payton.
In reviewing the performance of defense counsel as a whole, both at the suppression hearing and on appeal, the Court concludes that Shaw has made no showing that he was incompetently represented. Accordingly, the Court need not consider prejudice.
CONCLUSION
Petitioner availed himself of an opportunity to challenge the legality of his arrest. Accordingly, this Court may not reexamine the Fourth Amendment ground of his petition for habeas corpus. Petitioner has failed to substantiate his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. Accordingly, the writ is denied and the instant petition is dismissed in its entirety. No certificate of probable cause shall issue pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253 because the Court finds that there are no questions of substance on which the Court of Appeals should rule. Moreover, inasmuch as an appeal from this order would be frivolous, the Court certifies pursuant to the in forma pauperis provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) that such an appeal would not be taken in good faith.
It is so ordered.
Notes
. Shaw made no claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in his habeas corpus petition. In a second submission, dated August 2, 1986, Shaw did raise the additional contention that he was not afforded a full and fair opportunity to litigate his search and seizure claim for lack of effective assistance of counsel at both the trial and appellate levels. Inasmuch as Shaw did make that claim in his subsequent submissions, the Court will liberally construe the petition itself and the subsequent submission under Rule 2 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the United States District Courts as presenting a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.
See White
v.
Wyrick,
. The requirement that a person in state custody must exhaust his state remedies as a predicate to instituting an application for federal habeas relief is codified at 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b). In relevant part, the section provides:
An application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State____
. In
Gamble
v.
Oklahoma,
. The state trial court first refused to order the government to confirm or deny whether it had conducted a wiretap against the petitioner. The court next declined to consider the Fourth Amendment claim before trial as premature and subsequently refused to consider it after trial on a motion to vacate the sentence, claiming that an appellate court could decide his claims on the basis of the record. The Appellate Division denied petitioner leave to appeal the denial of his motion. The New York Court of Appeals affirmed petitioner's conviction, apparently on the mistaken belief that the trial court had decided the motion to vacate on the merits. When petitioner moved for reargument on the ground that the trial court had not denied his motion as the opinion by the Court of Appeals had assumed, the Court of Appeals deleted the portion of the opinion that had indicated the misimpression. Neither the trial nor the appellate courts, then, ever addressed the merits of the wiretap claim.
. Petitioner need not have actually litigated a Fourth Amendment claim to be barred by
Stone v. Powell.
Failure to make a timely Fourth Amendment objection under the available state process operates as a procedural bar under
Wainwright v. Sykes,
. The Supreme Court rejected the two arguments made by the state first that petitioner was in fact litigating a defaulted Fourth Amendment claim in the guise of the Sixth Amendment and second that even if the Sixth Amendment claim was distinct, the rationale and purposes of
Stone v. Powell
applied fully to ineffective assistance claims premised on failure to make Fourth Amendment objections. Justice Brennan reviewed the essence of a Fourth Amendment complaint, the violation by an illegal search of a complainant’s legitimate expectation of privacy, and the elements required to prove a violation, an illegal search and a legitimate expectation of privacy in the thing or place searched. He compared that with the essence of a Sixth Amendment violation, that defense counsel’s unprofessional errors rendered the trial unfair and the verdict suspect, the proof of which requires showing representation that fell below objective standards of professionalism and prejudice resulting from the reasonable probability that but for counsel’s unreasonable errors, the result would have been different. — U.S. at-- -,
The Court next distinguished the Fourth Amendment violation remedy of exclusion, which is not a personal constitutional right, from the fundamental right of an accused to counsel. In refusing to extend the rationale of
Stone
v.
Powell,
the Court observed that “while the Court may be free, under its analysis in
Stone,
to refuse for reasons of prudence or comity to burden the State with the costs of the exclusionary rule in contexts where the Court believes the price of the rule to exceed its utility, the Constitution constrains our ability to allocate as we see fit the costs of ineffective assistance.”
Id
at -,
. The argument, in relevant part, proceeded as follows:
Accepting that testimony, the police then waited a full week until January 24, 1980, at 5:30 in the morning to make this raid and arrest of the defendant, and of course, the testimony is clear that no warrant was obtained between January 17, 1980, when probable cause certainly existed to the date of the arrest which was January 24, 1980.
Pamela Milton testified that the front door of her apartment, 4F was kicked open by the police subsequent to this knocking and apparently Mr. Shaw went to the door and then sometime thereafter, the front door of the apartment was kicked open by the police officers. That was basically her testimony and there’s nothing in the record to controvert that testimony. The only police testimony was that the officers that were there at the front door stated that they heard someone— another officer call from the roof and he left the door and went towards the roof which would be up several stories and that he doesn't really know how the door was opened. The superintendent who testified today corroborated Pamela Minton's testimony in that he indicated that he was asked to make a repair the end of January and he did make a repair to the front door of apartment 4F. People v. Payton, [Payton v. New York ], which is 100 Supreme Court 1371 decided in April of 1980, prohibits the warrantless arrest of a defendant in his home for a routine felony unless there’s exigent circumstances. In this particular case, I think it’s even stronger because it’s a — an arrest in the home of a third person with whom the defendant was residing. In this particular case, there’s no indication of exigent circumstances. The police had plenty of time to obtain a warrant; there was seven days between January 17 and January 24 in which to obtain a warrant and there should be no question that there was ample time to obtain the arrest warrant.
Defendant would submit that the mere banging and knocking on the door at 5:30 in the morning and demanding that defendant open the door in itself is an invasion of the home that is contrary to the rules set forth in Pay-ton and the question of whether the defendant ran toward the fire escape before the kicking of the door started, during the kicking or after the kicking is to a large extent not clear in the evidence and not essential to the Payton determination.
Now, the results that stem from what the defendant submits is an illegal arrest without an arrest warrant are set forth in People v. Dunaway [Dunaway v. New York ] as far as the confession goes, and that’s442 US 200 [99 S.Ct. 2248 ,60 L.Ed.2d 824 (1979) ] which suppresses the confession based — given during an *867 illegal arrest, illegal detention even though the Miranda rights were given to the defendant, and defendant further submits that further result would be that the identification testimony as to identification, line-up and the photo array and even the in-court identification should be suppressed and that would be based on Davis v. Mississippi [394 U.S. 721 ,89 S.Ct. 1394 ,22 L.Ed.2d 676 (1969)] which suppressed fingerprints that were obtained during an illegal detention and also People v. Barnes which is a New York case [101 Misc.2d 76 ], 420 New York sub [sic] 2d 629 [1979].
Tr. 201-203.
