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...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...
...year and censured by the Massachusetts Bar. He also overextended himself, writing?and vigorously promoting?two bestsellers, hosting a TV interview show, and serving as nominal publisher of Gallery, a copy-kitten rip-off of Playboy. He even made plans to play himself in a movie, The Sam Sheppard Story. Suddenly, things began to sour. The movie never got off the ground, the TV show was canceled and he left Gallery. His helicopter company was slow to lift off (it only recently began to make money), and an airport he bought near his home was on its way to losing...
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