John Irving Rawls v. Michelle Gray

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal of Rawls’s habeas petition because his conviction for discharging a firearm from a vehicle as a Class Y felony and his resulting twenty-five-year sentence were authorized by law and did not violate the prohibition against ex post facto criminal statutes. The court also held that habeas corpus was not the proper vehicle for challenging whether Rawls knowingly pleaded guilty to a Class Y felony.