Legal Opinion
Eurus Kelly Waters v. Albert G. Thomas, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 4, 1995No. 88-8935PublishedCited by 515 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON and CARNES, Circuit Judges:1
Eurus Kelly Waters Mdnapped Anita Pas-ear, age sixteen, and Kathryn Culpepper, age thirty-five, who had been fishing on Jekyll Island, Georgia. At gunpoint, he forced the women to march into the woods, where he handcuffed them together. Waters orally sodomized Ms. Culpepper. Then he shot her. After shooting the older woman, Waters shot her young friend. At some point, he tore the teenager’s clothes off, leaving her nude from the waist down. As he was leaving the scene, Waters stopped by Ms. Culpepper’s automobile to steal her poeketbook, which contained…
2Cases cited61 opinions
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3Cited by515 opinions
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- William Howard Putman v. Frederick J. HeadCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2001
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