He filed for bankruptcy in June 2016, due to a $5 million federal tax bill.
JAIL TIME. Bailey could not acquit himself of contempt of court in 1996 and spent 44 days for failing to turn over stock and $700,000 that a Florida marijuana dealer had given him. Prosecutors said the stock and money should have been forfeited. Bailey said they were his payment from the drug dealer.
Bailey became one of the most famous attorneys in the country with courtroom victories that included an acquittal for a figure in the My Lai massacre of the Vietnam War and a successful appeal for Sam Sheppard, a Cleveland doctor convicted of murdering his wife.
Bailey joined the Navy before switching to the Marines and becoming a fighter pilot. After his military service, he went to law school at Boston University while simultaneously running an investigative company for attorneys. Bailey's first big success came in Ohio in 1966 with Sheppard's appeal.
By Bill Trott. (Reuters) -F. Lee Bailey, who brought drama, swagger and cunning to the courtroom in representing football star O.J. Simpson, heiress Patty Hearst and the "Boston Strangler" suspect before his career ended in disbarment, died on Thursday. He was 87.
The case has been cited as an inspiration for the popular TV show and movie "The Fugitive.". Bailey then became a key figure in the Boston Strangler case - 13 single women, most of them sexually assaulted, killed between 1962 and 1964.
He had a major public blowup with co-counsel Robert Shapiro, a longtime friend, just before they opened what proved to be a successful defense in Simpson's sensational double-murder trial in 1994. "Guys like Bailey - and there aren't many of them - are great characters and don't generate great love," Roy Black, ...
He filed for bankruptcy in June 2016, due to a $5 million federal tax bill.
JAIL TIME. Bailey could not acquit himself of contempt of court in 1996 and spent 44 days for failing to turn over stock and $700,000 that a Florida marijuana dealer had given him. Prosecutors said the stock and money should have been forfeited. Bailey said they were his payment from the drug dealer.
Bailey became one of the most famous attorneys in the country with courtroom victories that included an acquittal for a figure in the My Lai massacre of the Vietnam War and a successful appeal for Sam Sheppard, a Cleveland doctor convicted of murdering his wife.
Bailey joined the Navy before switching to the Marines and becoming a fighter pilot. After his military service, he went to law school at Boston University while simultaneously running an investigative company for attorneys. Bailey's first big success came in Ohio in 1966 with Sheppard's appeal.
Please try again later. (Reuters) -F. Lee Bailey, who brought drama, swagger and cunning to the courtroom in representing football star O.J. Simpson, heiress Patty Hearst and the "Boston Strangler" suspect before his career ended in disbarment, died on Thursday. He was 87.
The case has been cited as an inspiration for the popular TV show and movie "The Fugitive.". Bailey then became a key figure in the Boston Strangler case - 13 single women, most of them sexually assaulted, killed between 1962 and 1964.
Bailey's most dramatic moment in the Simpson trial came when he questioned Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, suggesting he was a racist and had planted a bloody glove to frame Simpson. Neither accusation was fully substantiated in court but served to weaken Fuhrman's credibility. MARINE PILOT.
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