Leslie Wayne Yohey v. James A. Collins, Director Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division
- Decided
- March 8, 1993
- Docket
- 92-5596
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 3,536 timesNo negative treatment found in this library
What later courts said
- holding that appellant who sought to incorporate previously filed arguments by reference "has abandoned these arguments by failing to argue them in the body of his brief" — Summers v. Dretke (2005)
- holding that plaintiff had abandoned issues because he merely “request[ed] ... the adoption of previously filed legal and factual arguments in his objections to the magistrate judge’s report and in various state court pleadings” — Grant v. Cuellar (1995)
- holding that one “abandon[s] [one’s] arguments by failing to argue them in the body of [one’s] brief” — City of Austin v. Ken Paxton (2019)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:
Leslie Wayne Yohey is currently in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He was convicted by a jury of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Texas Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct appeal.
Yohey v. State, 801 S.W.2d 232, 234, 247 (Tex.App.—San Antonio 1990, pet. ref’d). Yohey then filed a petition for discretionary review with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which was refused.
Cite this
Leslie Wayne Yohey v. James A. Collins, Director Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division, 985 F.2d 222 (1993)Read the full opinion
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