Louis T. Johnson v. Joseph S. Petrovsky, Warden, F.C.I., Sandstone, Minnesota

Louis T. Johnson pled guilty to the illegal possession of firearms under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(h) and 924(a), and was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Johnson sought post conviction relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 alleging:

1) that his guilty plea was involuntarily and unlawfully induced;

2) that the existence of two different statutes, 18 U.S.C. § 922(h) and 18 U.S.C. App. § 1202(a), which address the same conduct but prescribe different penalties, rendered his conviction under the more stringent statute constitutionally invalid;

3)…