Legal Opinion
United States v. Franklin Jeffries, II
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 27, 2012No. 11-5722PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSutton, J., joined by Griffin, J., and Dowd, D.J.,
SUTTON, J. (pp. 483-86), also delivered a separate dubitante opinion.
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Tangled in a prolonged legal dispute over visitation rights to see his daughter, Franklin Delano Jeffries II tried something new. He wrote a song. The title, “Daughter’s Love,” gives away half of the lyrics. The song contains sweet passages about relationships between fathers and daughters and the importance of spending time together. The rest boils into an assortment of the banal (complaints about his ex-wife), the ranting (gripes about lawyers and the legal system) and the menacing (threats to…
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