Legal Opinion
United States v. Walker
District Court, D. Hawaii
Decided September 7, 1982No. Cr. 81-00310-10PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
JAMES M. BURNS, District Judge. *
INTRODUCTION
Stearns and Walker were indicted in 1981 for the first degree murder of Eleanor Graham in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1111. Mrs. Graham was allegedly killed in late August or early September of 1974 on Palmyra Island, an atoll approximately 1000 miles south of Hawaii. Mrs. Graham and her husband, on a cruise on the Pacific in their ketch the Sea Wind, disappeared while moored at Palmyra. The Sea Wind was discovered in Hawaii in October of 1974 manned by Stearns and Walker. They were charged and convicted of, inter alia, theft of the…
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