Myers v. Johnson

In Myers v. Collins, 8 F.3d 249 (5th Cir.1993), we reversed the district court’s judgment denying Myers’s habeas corpus petition and we remanded to the district court for an evidentiary hearing on whether Myers had abandoned his right to file a pro se brief on direct appeal. Upon remand and following an evidentiary hearing, the district court again denied Myers’s petition for habeas corpus, finding that although Myers had not abandoned his right to self-representation on direct appeal, the denial of his right to self-representation was harmless error. Myers appeals the judgment of the…