Beale v. United States

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 3 United States of America, Case No.: 2:17-cr-00050-JAD-CWH-1 4 Plaintiff 5 v. Order Denying Motion to Vacate Sentence 6 Michael Terrell Beale, [ECF No. 80] 7 Defendant 8 Michael Beale is serving a 74-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to 9 unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.1 Beale moves under 28 U.S.C. 10 § 2255 to vacate his felon-in-possession conviction under the Supreme Court’s recent decision in 11 Rehaif v. United States, which clarified that a defendant must be aware of his status as a…