Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailey: And you are as certain of that as you are about the rest of your testimony...
Finally, he has had specialists give Patty a polygraph test (a favorite Bailey device); the results, he says, support the claim that she believed herself always under threat. He will fight to have those results admitted at the trial...
...feet in the courtroom, Bailey "is absolutely without peer," says Boston Lawyer Gerald Alch, a former Bailey associate. Says San Francisco Attorney James Brosnahan, who has faced Bailey in court: "He is quick, forceful, smart and knows where he is going and how to get there. He has the quality you find in brain surgeons. He concentrates completely on technique and doesn't get tied up in emotionalism." Adds Wall Street Lawyer Joseph McLaughlin: "He has a fantastic ability to adapt to his audience, whether it's a jury, a witness or the press...
...trial arts, Bailey's greatest strength is crossexamination. Says Alch: "I can watch him cross-examine a witness, and he'll lose me. If I don't know where he is going, you can bet your life the witness doesn't." One typical example came in a 1968 trial in Boston in which an eyewitness identification was important to the prosecution's case. Defense Lawyer Bailey got the prosecution witness to mistakenly name a man in the courtroom as an investigator who had interviewed him. With the witness reeling but stubborn, Bailey then brought in another man and asked...
...Bailey: That...