Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyewitness to describe the killing in gruesome detail, a famous medical expert to support the accuser's testimony and, not least, a prosecutor who had an extraordinary record of 30 murder trials without an acquittal. Yet when the verdict came last week, it was Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey-himself undefeated in 19 homicide cases (TIME, Dec. 9)-who shouted "Hooray!" After just four hours and 27 minutes of deliberation, a Freehold, N.J., jury acquitted Dr. Carl Coppolino, 34, of first-degree murder in the 1963 death of William Farber, 51, the husband of Coppolino's mistress...
...Bailey knows all about bugging and hypnosis as well as polygraphy. Along with electronic gadgets, his jet-age operation includes five office cars and five investigators headed by the former chief investigator for Boston's strangler bureau. Divorced and remarried (three children), he is rich in possessions: a Pontiac GTO, a Thunderbird, three sizable yachts, a 17-room ranch house and 80 acres in Marshfield near Boston. The whole empire is connected by two-way radios that keep the boss in constant touch as he swoops around the country in his Cessna 310 airplane...
Victim's Victim. Bailey's passion for preparation helped win the Sheppard case, which he tackled for sheer challenge at the urging of Sheppard's friends as far back as 1961. With no promise of a fee, he scoured 9,808 pages of briefs and testimony, won a Supreme Court reversal last June on historic grounds of "prejudicial publicity." Then he discarded the 1954 defense theory that Marilyn Sheppard's killer was a stranger. For. the 1966 retrial, he says, "we had to destroy Marilyn...
Whatever the truth, Bailey has the state in a bind. Unwilling at first to believe DeSalvo, state officials asked him five key questions about the crimes. To protect his client's privilege against selfincrimination, however, Bailey first made the interrogators agree not to use the answers. Thus, when DeSalvo insistently babbled his guilt in the stranglings, the state was still bound by its agreement. It could not use DeSalvo's "unofficial" confession, which is the only evidence against him. Bailey was willing to break the agreement, but only if the state sought an acquittal on grounds of insanity...
Quite alive, however, are the charges against DeSalvo for the rapes committed after the stranglings. In those cases, Bailey plans a novel trial tactic: if permitted to do so, he will call psychiatrists to testify that his client is insane, and use DeSalvo's hospital confessions to strangling 13 women as documentation. If Bailey is successful, DeSalvo will merely go back to the hospital. Not only will Bailey win more publicity, but his strategy may actually do the prosecution a service. In effect, the naming of DeSalvo as the strangler would officially "solve" the case and get the state...