Michael A. Kelley v. Greg Zoeller

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

On October 1, 1974, a then-eighteen-year-old Michael Kelley walked into a Hammond, Indiana, sandwich shop with a gun and demanded that an employee hand over all of the money in the store. Kelley walked out with $28 and a robbery conviction that would shadow him for more than thirty-seven years. In 2011, a federal judge in Missouri used that robbery conviction to enhance Kelley’s sentence for a firearms offense. Kelley now claims that the State of Indiana should have expunged the robbery conviction under a plea deal that he struck in 1975, and that the Missouri court…