Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases of Drs. Samuel Sheppard and Carl Coppolino, Criminal Lawyer F. Lee Bailey sought to create so much doubt about the guilt of his clients that the juries could only find them innocent. In the case of Albert DeSalvo that ended last week in Boston, Bailey chose a completely opposite strategy. He set out to convince the jury that his client was the notorious Boston Strangler, and so guilty that he must be insane...
...Bailey laid his plans carefully. DeSalvo was not charged with murder: there had never been enough admissible evidence to support such an indictment. What he was charged with were armed robbery and sex crimes arising from assaults on four women, all of whom lived to testify against him. Before the trial, Bailey invited a Massachusetts assistant attorney general named John Bottomly to see DeSalvo in a mental hospital. There, DeSalvo tape-recorded confessions to the Boston Strangler murders, complete with so much detail that there could be little doubt that he had actual ly committed them. But before Bailey would...
Donald Conn, the state's prosecuting attorney (and coincidentally, a classmate of Bailey's at Boston University Law School), admitted that DeSalvo unquestionably was a sick man, but he and the prosecution psychiatrists launched a strong rebuttal to the defense contention that DeSalvo was "a completely uncontrollable vegetable walking around in a human body." The traditional Massachusetts rule for legal insanity holds that a defendant is sane unless he is unable to tell right from wrong or is governed by irresistible impulse. Both sides conceded that De-Salvo knew that what he was doing was wrong...
...Johnson 14 .440 44 6.7 Bob Beller 14 .456 24 6.3 Dan Martell 10 .473 25 5.9 Paul Waickowski 10 .521 29 3.3 Eric Gustavson 2 .500 0 3.5 Jim Griswold 8 .333 12 0.8 Ron McCullough 4 .375 4 1.5 Jody Markowski 4 .333 0 1.3 Jim Bailey...
Throughout the day, Bailey oozed confidence. He maintained a slight smile at all times and cordially greeted spectators who came up to him during recesses. His gorgeous wife sat in the first row of the gallery. Merrick sat in the press section...