Hemmes v. United States

FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN STEPHEN HEMMES, Petitioner, OPINION and ORDER v. 18-cv-868-wmc UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 16-cr-100-wmc Respondent. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, Stephen Hemmes seeks to vacate his conviction and sentence. In 2016, Hemmes was charged in a one-count indictment with knowingly transmitting in interstate commerce a communication threatening to injure a specific person, with the purpose of issuing the threat and with knowledge that the communication would be understood as a threat, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). Hemmes pleaded guilty and prior to sentencing…