Legal Opinion
Larry D. Butler v. Sheriff of Palm Beach County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 6, 2012No. 11-13933PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
In one of his ballads, Jim Croce warned that there are four things that you just don’t do: “You don’t tug on Superman’s cape/ You don’t spit into the wind/ You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger/ And you don’t mess around "with Jim.” 1 He could have added a fifth warning to that list: “And you don’t let a pistol-packing mother catch you naked in her daughter’s closet.”
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It all started with a phone call. 2 Nineteen-year-old Uzuri Collier called Larry Butler, who was of a similar age, and invited him to her house. Butler responded to the invitation the way most…
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