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When The Law Doesn't Work, Richard H. Underwood
When The Law Doesn't Work, Richard H. Underwood
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article looks at Dylan songs and traces them back to "true crime" to relate Dylan to the law. It looks at "Ballad of Hollis Brown," "Ballad of Donald White," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," "Hurricane," "Percy's Song," and "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues." Part I looks at Dylan's traditional songs. Part II looks at Dylan's finger-pointing songs. Finally, part III looks at "Bad Judge Ballads."
"No Older 'N Seventeen": Defending In Dylan Country, Abbe Smith
"No Older 'N Seventeen": Defending In Dylan Country, Abbe Smith
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article is about an actual experience the author had defending a teenager accused of a serious crime where Bob Dylan grew up-- the Minnesota Iron Range. In order to protect the young man's privacy, it does not divulge the actual time period of the case. Likewise, details about his life and the charges he was facing have been changed. His name has been changed to Jamal. Things did not go well for Jamal. Though a child when he was sent from the juvenile jail outside of Washington, D.C. to a secure treatment facility for serious juvenile offenders in the …