F. Lee Bailey
F. Lee Bailey
Francis Lee Bailey, Jr.,is an American former attorney. For most of his career, he was licensed in Massachusetts and Florida. He was a criminal defense attorney who served as the lawyer in the re-trial of osteopathic physician Sam Sheppard. He was also the supervisory attorney over attorney Mark J. 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. J...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth10 June 1933
CityWaltham, MA
CountryUnited States of America
A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.
I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.
Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.