Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailey: I have just taken his identification card from his pocket and I invite you to read it and weep...
...Bailey's team?longtime friend and associate J. Albert Johnson, 42, two associate lawyers and three or four private investigators?amassed large loose-leaf notebooks for the Hearst trial that total more than 500 pages. They are indexed by witness and cross-indexed by subject. The night before a witness is to appear, Bailey memorizes that section, then almost never uses notes...
...when he was in his sophomore year at Harvard, Bailey became bored with academe and joined the Navy. He just missed the Korean War, but found two permanent passions: flying and the law, which he considers integrally related. "If I ran a school for criminal lawyers," he wrote in his 1971 book The Defense Never Rests, "I would teach them all to fly. I would send them up when the weather was rough, when the planes were in tough shape, when the birds were walking. The ones who survived would understand the meaning of 'alone.' " Bailey had transferred...
...Bailey graduated first in his class, despite spending much of his time watching actual trials and running a successful investigative firm servicing local lawyers. During classes he often read in apparent boredom; when his professors tried to tag him with sudden questions, he would smugly answer in minute detail, then go back to his reading. His worst grade, ironically, was on a criminal law exam?but only because he is plagued with a bad case of lefthanders' handwriting and could not finish all his answers. After that debacle, he was permitted to bring a typewriter to all his exams; even...
...Bailey's only worry about entering criminal law was that there would not be much money in it, and he did not strike it rich immediately. But he did the next best thing: he became almost instantly famous...