John Paul Steele v. The United States of America

In September of 1975, after a jury trial in the District of Colorado, John Paul Steele was convicted of possessing six stolen United States Postal money orders under 18 U.S.C. § 500. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment. In November, 1975 in the District of Nebraska, John Paul Steele plead guilty to a charge of forcible entry of a United States Post Office with intent to commit larceny under 18 U.S.C. § 2115. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment to run consecutively to the Colorado sentence.

Steele then filed this motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 seeking to have his Nebraska…