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U.S. v. JEFFRIES

No. 11-5722.

692 F.3d 473 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Franklin Delano JEFFRIES, II, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 27, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jonathan Harwell , Harwell, & Harwell, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Luke A. McLaurin , United States Attorney's Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Jonathan Harwell , Ralph E. Harwell , Harwell & Harwell, P.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Luke A. McLaurin , Kelly A. Norris , United States Attorney's Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

SUTTON, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which GRIFFIN, J., and DOWD, D.J., joined. 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...

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