Brown's rise from juvenile delinquent to the so-called Godfather of Soul, has been held up as a great example of a modern American success stories.

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Mays and Richmond were determined to be delinquent, the juvenile equivalent of guilty, Lipps ruled in the juvenile court trial without a jury.

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