Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relationship between law and justice is coincidental and guilt or innocence has very little to do with the outcome of a trial," F. Lee Bailey said to an audience at Tufts University last night...
Nobody challenged Bailey's victory in the Democratic primary last September, but there were charges of voting fraud in other areas, so Rhode Island Attorney General Julius Michaelson convened a grand jury to investigate. While the jury was sniffing around, an anonymous tipster called the state police and told them that Bailey had an arrest record. State Police Captain Edward Pare found that Bailey had pleaded guilty in 1962 to shoplifting suits from a store in Cheltenham, Pa. He had paid a $100 fine and spent 60 days in jail. Pare also found that Bailey had been arrested...
Street Savvy. Whenever rumors of shoplifting came up during the campaign, Bailey shrugged them off. It had all happened long ago, when he was poor. "I had to eat," says Bailey, who has two children and is separated from his wife. That seemed to satisfy the voters in the 19th District, where Bailey's street savvy had so impressed some local bankers that they sold him a building for a small cash payment. Said one Bailey supporter: "The guy paid his debt to society. He just never got no receipt...
...When Bailey won last November, the attorney general passed to the legislature the problem of whether he was eligible to serve. On Jan. 4 the other 99 legislators were sworn in while Bailey sat silently at his desk, his head bowed. The legislature appointed a committee to review the case, and that brought in the industrious Captain Pare. In 1961, Pare reported, Bailey was convicted in Medford, Mass., for possession of $2,112 worth of stolen goods and fined $100; two years later, again in Medford, police seized Bailey with $700 worth of hot merchandise. This time he was fined...
...Bailey himself appeared before the legislature to plead that the house forget his past crimes and consider instead the wishes of his constituents. Said he: "They voted me to sit in this honorable house, and I think it's no more than right for me to sit here." But the new evidence strengthened the attack on Bailey. Said one critic: "I just don't believe a convicted shoplifter should make the laws of the state." The legislature voted, 82 to 10, to bar Bailey...