Word: coppolino
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After his acquittal in New Jersey last year on charges of murdering his some time mistress' husband, Dr. Carl Coppolino appeared a sure bet to beat the less likely charge that he had murdered his own wife. Since there was not even any public evidence that she had died unnaturally, the case against Coppolino seemed flimsy indeed. Yet last week, when the twelve male jurors in Naples, Fla., returned their verdict after less than four hours of deliberations, the retired physician was pronounced guilty of second-degree murder...
Addressing an overflow crowd at Leverett House, Bailey--the attorney who defended Albert DeSalvo, Dr. Sam Shepard, Dr. Carl Coppolino -- described some of the problems inherent in the present system of criminal law, and in the present training of criminal lawyers...
Bailey complained that, in the public eye, indictment in a criminal case is equivalent to conviction. He said that Dr. Coppolino would suffer both socially and economically from the effects of the murder indictment brought against him, although Bailey feels that the "murder" was in fact never committed...
...emotional stops: his rhetoric sweeps and soars. Williams is inevitably compared with F. Lee Bailey, a more recently risen criminal lawyer. The main difference between them lies in the cases they handle. Bailey specializes in violence-tinged sensation involving such up-from-nowhere types as Dr. Samuel Sheppard, Carl Coppolino and the Boston Strangler. Williams is more the seeker of equal justice for well-known but scandal-haunted clients...
...cases of Drs. Samuel Sheppard and Carl Coppolino, Criminal Lawyer F. Lee Bailey sought to create so much doubt about the guilt of his clients that the juries could only find them innocent. In the case of Albert DeSalvo that ended last week in Boston, Bailey chose a completely opposite strategy. He set out to convince the jury that his client was the notorious Boston Strangler, and so guilty that he must be insane...