Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then chopping up her body. By mistake, Edgerly's ailing defense attorney had agreed to the admission of a polygraph test that an expert claimed proved Edgerly's guilt. The lawyer desperately looked around for anyone who knew enough about relatively new techniques to cross-examine the supposed expert. Bailey happened to be studying polygraphs for another client's defense. Barely three months after his admission to the bar, he got what he called "a slice of the moon." He tore apart the expert's credentials and testimony, then took over presentation of all the defense evidence...
...year later, a reporter asked Bailey if he would supervise a lie detector test for Cleveland Doctor Sam Sheppard, who had already been convicted of murdering his wife. Bailey agreed. To get permission for the test, Bailey mounted what became the first of his now familiar pretrial publicity campaigns. Appearing on a TV talk show, he used a lie detector to uncover the most burning secret of the day: that Johnny Carson would be Jack Paar's replacement on nighttime TV. The tactic did more for his ego than his client. The ploy hardened official resistance, and a state court...
Undaunted, Bailey came back with a new challenge to the conviction in federal court. His argument this time was that the judge at Sheppard's original trial seven years before had failed to insulate the jury from an anti-Sheppard newspaper campaign by changing the venue, sequestering the jurors, or at least ordering them not to read press accounts. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark 8-to-1 decision, agreed with Bailey, then 32, and ordered Sheppard freed or retried. At the new trial in 1966, Bailey easily won an acquittal for Sheppard...
Before long, Bailey's client list read like a Who's Who of the accused in the sensational crimes of the 1960s...
...Anesthesiologist Carl Coppolino, acquitted of killing his lover's husband, but later convicted, despite another Bailey defense effort, of murdering his wife...