F Lee Bailey
Lee Bailey, (born June 10, 1933) is an American criminal defense lawyer who served as the lawyer in the Sam Sheppard re-trial. Kadish in the court martial of Captain Ernest Medina for the My Lai Massacre, among other high profile trials, and was one of the lawyers for the defense in the O.
He has also had a number of visible defeats, legal controversies, and personal trouble with the law, and was disbarred for misconduct while defending his client Claude DuBoc. In spite of his difficulties, he still has a reputation for being a highly successful defense attorney, and is the Chairman and CEO of IMPAC, Integrated Control Systems, Inc., a Florida corporation.
Education and military service
Bailey was born in Waltham, Massachusetts. He went to Cardigan Mountain School and then Kimball Union Academy, graduating in the class of 1950.
Bailey studied at Harvard College, and was a member of the class of 1954 . He dropped out of Harvard to join the United States Marine Corps in 1952, and received his aviator wings in 1954.
from Boston University, where he was first in the graduating class of 1960.
Notable cases
Sam Sheppard
In 1954, Dr. Sam Sheppard was found guilty in the murder of his wife Marilyn.
Bailey, at the time a resident of Rocky River, Ohio, was hired by Sheppard's brother Stephen to help in his brother's appeal. This case established Bailey's reputation as a skilled defense attorney and was the first of many high-profile cases.
"Boston Strangler"
While defendant Albert DeSalvo was in jail for the "Green Man" sexual assaults, he confessed his guilt in the "Boston Strangler" murders to Bailey.
Bailey, who had just won Sam Sheppard an acquittal in November 1966, successfully defended Coppolino in the New Jersey case over the death of Lt. He was paroled after serving 12 years of his sentence.
Ernest Medina
Bailey successfully defended U.S.
Army Captain Ernest Medina in his 1971 court-martial for responsibility in the My Lai incident during the Vietnam War.
Patty Hearst
The case of Patty Hearst, a newspaper heiress who had been involved in bank robberies after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), was one of Bailey's defeats. Patty Hearst describes his closing argument in her autobiography as "disjointed" and that she suspected he had been drinking.
During his closing argument, Bailey spilled a glass of water on his pants.
O.J. Bailey held numerous press conferences to discuss the progress of the case.
Bailey also attracted minor attention for keeping a silver flask on the defense table, which fellow defense attorney Robert Kardashian claimed contained only coffee.
William & Chantal McCorkle
Chantal McCorkle (born 1968, Slough, England) is a British citizen. The McCorkles sold kits purporting to show buyers how to get rich by buying property in foreclosures and government auctions.
They advertised on infomercials; among the grounds for their conviction was their representation in the infomercials that they owned luxury automobiles and airplanes (actually rented for the commercials), and their use of purported testimonials from satisfied customers, who were actually paid actors.
She, represented by Mark Horwitz, and her husband, represented by Bailey, were each originally sentenced to over 24 years in federal prison under mandatory sentencing laws. After two appeals, the McCorkles' sentences were reduced in 2006 to 18 years.
"Paul is Dead"
In 1969, during the "Paul is Dead" urban legend's popularity, Bailey participated in a television show where he received "testimony" from believers in the myth.
Controversies
Bailey's visible public profile has come both as a result of the cases he has taken and for his own personal actions.
Bailey was found guilty of 7 counts of attorney misconduct by the Florida Supreme Court. Simpson case was being tried, Bailey and Robert Shapiro represented Claude DuBoc, an accused marijuana dealer.
When the government sought to collect the stock, it had increased in value to $20 million. After 44 days at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, Bailey agreed to relinquish his claim to the stock and was freed.
Publications
Non-fiction
The Defense Never Rests, co-author with Harvey Aronson.
ISBN 0-689-10667-X.
Cleared for the Approach: In Defense of Flying, co-author with John Greenya. ISBN 0-13-136663-7.
How to Protect Yourself Against Cops in California and Other Strange Places.
Gary Patterson, The Walrus Was Paul: The Great Beatle Death Clues (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998) 16-17.