A Traveler's Tale

Meet one of the Bandemer Eight

by Eve Silberman

posted 10/29/2010

When Melissa Lyon, twenty, left 14th District Court on September 1 she literally let down her hair--she took off a blond, pony-tailed extension to reveal that half of her scalp was shaved. Her attorney, Michele Kelly, had advised her to look nice for her court appearance, but now, Lyon was relieved to be herself again.

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