Dwight B. Lewis v. T.C. Peterson, Warden

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Dwight Lewis, was convicted in a district court in the Eighth Circuit, pursuant to a guilty plea based on a plea agreement that he had signed, of using a firearm to commit a federal drug offense, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The agreement provided for the dismissal of another section 924(c) charge, this one based on an incident that occurred before the incident that formed the basis of his guilty plea. The petitioner did not appeal his conviction, but he later filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate it on the ground that the Supreme Court’s…