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What's your name? ... Bob Dylan....  too funny

You're Bob Dylan? US police want to see some ID

By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer Wayne Parry, Associated Press Writer Fri Aug 14, 6:33 pm ET

Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium.

A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley said Friday.

"I don't think she was familiar with his entire body of work," Woolley said.

The incident began at 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses.

The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name. According to Woolley, the following exchange ensued:

"What is your name, sir?" the officer asked.

"Bob Dylan," Dylan said.

"OK, what are you doing here?" the officer asked.

"I'm on tour," the singer replied.

A second officer, also in his 20s, responded to assist the first officer. He, too, apparently was unfamiliar with Dylan, Woolley said.

The officers asked Dylan for identification. The singer of such classics as "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Blowin' in the Wind" said that he didn't have any ID with him, that he was just walking around looking at houses to pass some time before that night's show.

The officers asked Dylan, 68, to accompany them back to the Ocean Place Resort and Spa, where the performers were staying. Once there, tour staff vouched for Dylan.

The officers thanked him for his cooperation.

"He couldn't have been any nicer to them," Woolley added.

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This guy was a good friend in High School. Not a violent bone in his body. Got messed up with crack cocaine before I even knew what that was. Was partying downtown (in an apparently not so good neighborhood), got his truck stuck in the mud. The next morning, his wife drives him there to get his truck and there is a dead prostitute in the lot. He's been in prison for over 16 years for a crime that I don't think even he knows if he committed. Don't do drugs kids.

Greg (Tator), I hope justice is served and if your are innocent (as I believe you are) you finally get out.

RALEIGH - A Cary man convicted of murder 16 years ago may have a chance at freedom.

Gregory Flint Taylor, now 47, will have a hearing Sept. 3 and 4 in front of the state's Innocence Inquiry Commission. The panel was formed two years ago to investigate imprisoned convicts' claims of innocence. Taylor's case will be the third heard by the eight-person panel.

A jury convicted Taylor in April 1993 of first-degree murder for the killing of Jacquetta "Jackie" Thomas, a prostitute found dead Sept. 26, 1991, in the middle of a South Blount Street cul-de-sac. She had been struck on the head and neck with a blunt object and her underpants were around her ankles.

Taylor, serving a life sentence for his conviction, maintains that he is innocent.

Wake prosecutor Tom Ford, who is still employed in the Wake District Attorney's Office, argued during the 1993 trial that Taylor and another man, Johnny Beck, had partied with Thomas the night she was killed. A jailhouse witness also told jurors that Taylor talked about Thomas' death while in jail after his arrest, according to news archives of the trial.

Taylor maintained that his vehicle, which was found near Thomas' body, had gotten stuck there after a night of four-wheeling. He said that he had nothing to do with Thomas nor had he encountered her that night.

A substance thought to be blood at the time was found on the fender of the truck. The substance was never tested to confirm that it was blood, according to motions filed by the Innocence Inquiry Commission staff.

In addition, semen found on Thomas' underpants did not match DNA samples recently provided by Taylor or Beck, according to an affidavit by Sharon Stellato, an investigator with the Innocence Commission. Court records show that investigators have collected DNA samples from Thomas' former boyfriend.

Murder charges filed against Beck in Thomas' death were dismissed by Ford four months after Taylor's conviction and never reinstated. Ford had offered to try to reduce Taylor's sentence if he would testify against Beck, according to court records and news accounts of the murder case.

After his release, Beck said he was wrongly arrested.

Taylor has been imprisoned since his 1993 conviction, his appeals so far unsuccessful.