Post by t-bob on Jun 4, 2021 9:25:10 GMT -5
The celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who represented Patty Hearst, OJ Simpson, the Boston Strangler, and the Army commander of the infamous My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War, has died at age 87.
Bailey always won notoriety, but not necessarily the case. Patty Hearst and the Boston Strangler went to prison. He did succeed in overturning the conviction of Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Ohio osteopath whose case inspired the television series and movie “The Fugitive.” Dr. Sheppard had been convicted in 1954 of bludgeoning his wife but claimed that he had been knocked out in a fight with the killer.
Robert D. McFadden writes in The NY Times that, “Mr. Bailey flew warplanes, sailed yachts, dropped out of Harvard, wrote books, touted himself on television, was profiled in countless newspapers, ran a detective agency, married four times, carried a gun, took on seemingly hopeless cases and courted trouble, once going to jail for six weeks and finally being disbarred.”
Excerpt Rooney Report
Bailey always won notoriety, but not necessarily the case. Patty Hearst and the Boston Strangler went to prison. He did succeed in overturning the conviction of Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Ohio osteopath whose case inspired the television series and movie “The Fugitive.” Dr. Sheppard had been convicted in 1954 of bludgeoning his wife but claimed that he had been knocked out in a fight with the killer.
Robert D. McFadden writes in The NY Times that, “Mr. Bailey flew warplanes, sailed yachts, dropped out of Harvard, wrote books, touted himself on television, was profiled in countless newspapers, ran a detective agency, married four times, carried a gun, took on seemingly hopeless cases and courted trouble, once going to jail for six weeks and finally being disbarred.”
Excerpt Rooney Report
