Legal Opinion
Kenneth Earl Fults v. GDCP Warden
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 2014No. 12-13563-PPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
Kenneth Earl Fults is under sentence of death in Georgia following his guilty plea to the 1996 murder and kidnapping of Cathy Bounds, his next-door neighbor. After the district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, see 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Mr. Fults filed a notice of appeal and obtained a certificate of appealability on a number of claims. Following review of the extensive record in this case, and with the benefit of oral argument, we affirm the denial of habeas relief.
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The Georgia Supreme Court, in its opinion on direct appeal, summarized the circumstances…
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