Legal Opinion
Yeoman v. Pollard
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 16, 2017No. 15-3489PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Adam Yeoman is serving a lengthy sentence in a Wisconsin prison after entering a plea of “no contest” to a charge of attempted first degree intentional homicide. Before filing his federal petition for habeas corpus relief, he exhausted some but not all of his claims in the Wisconsin courts. In presenting his mixed petition to the district court,1 Yeoman requested that the court enter a stay and hold his petition in abeyance so that he could return to state court and exhaust his remedies there. The court declined to enter the stay after concluding that Yeoman lacked good…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Rhines v. WeberSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Woodford v. GarceauSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- Brown v. BuesgenDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 2022
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