Legal Opinion

Mills v. United States

District Court, D. Nevada

Decided December 14, 2020No. 2:20-cv-01088Unknown

1Opinion

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Case No.: 2:16-cr-00113-APG 4 Plaintiff ORDER DENYING MOTION TO VACATE 5 v. [ECF No. 38] 6 PRENTICE MILLS, 7 Defendant 8 Defendant Prentice Mills pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in 9 violation of

18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). He moves under

28 U.S.C. § 2255

to vacate 10 his conviction and sentence. ECF No. 38. He argues that, based on the Supreme Court’s holding 11 in Rehaif v. United States,

139 S. Ct. 2191

(2019), his indictment is fatally defective because the 12 government failed…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  2. North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. United States v. FradySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. United States v. CottonSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  5. Rehaif v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2019

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