Posted on 06/03/2021 2:26:49 PM PDT by Cecily
F. Lee Bailey, the no-nonsense criminal defense attorney who helped win an acquittal in the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson as part of the former NFL star’s legal “Dream Team,” died Thursday in Georgia. He was 87.
His cause of death was not immediately revealed.
Superior Court Judge Kenneth J. Fishman, Bailey’s former partner, confirmed the news to The Boston Globe.
Simpson, who was found not guilty in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, posted condolences to his former lawyer Thursday on Twitter, calling Bailey “a great friend,” and “one of the great lawyers of our time.”
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Wow...I thought he died years ago.
I didnt know or care if he was alive or dead. Still dont.
He doesnt matter
I was taking flying lessons in Marshfield, MA as a 15 y.o. I was sensitive, not having a driver’s license, about my mother picking me up at the airport. Bailey, who had a business interest at the airport would give me a lift out to the highway in his beautiful sable brown Citroen/Maserati. Friendly to me and took an interest in my flight progress.
I met him when he was in his twenties———didn’t like him then.
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He helped OJ get away with murder as part of his Dream Team.
But then, so did Alan Dershowitz and he’s ironically a Trump supporter.
Again? How’s Nelson Mandela doing?
I read a couple of books by pro trial writers after the OJ trial was over. The prosecution team was so idiotically incompetent, along with the media seeking judge’s antics, that his acquittal was pretty much assured.
It started with the “genius”, Marcia Clark, deciding exactly how to prosecute the case within hours of the murder and before any real evidence had been gathered. Then you have the other “genius” who had OJ Simpson try to put on a leather glove that had been soaked in blood. Wet leather shrinks as anyone but an LA City ADA would know.
Never mind that the LA Dist Attorney, Gil Garcetti, kept only the worst ADAs in the main downtown office and sent the competent ones to out lying offices so he wouldn’t get upstaged by far better attorneys than him. Standard bureaucracy at it’s very best.
Cool!
Way back, looking for a step up from a skyhawk, Bailey’s cardinal was for sale. Flew to where it was based (I forget, based on your post, probably GHG). It actually looked pretty ratty, and a death trap, LOL.
Nice story. My in laws live in Marshfield. I love visiting.
Google sez he was worth 100K???
So this is the guy who died. My mother called and was telling me William F Buckley just passed away
Wow...I thought he died years ago.
Ditto.
RIP
Exactly, I thought F. Lee had kicked the bucket years ago. I sometimes get that odd feeling that we’re drifting in and out of subtly different parallel timelines, without knowing it. Or it’s deja vu all over again...
The OJ jury had a median IQ of 50....which meant game,set and match for a guy who basically beheaded his wife.
Rush used to call him FLee Bailey. I always thought that Flea Bailey fit.
-PJ
I watched a lot of that trial, and the prosecution’s defeat had little or nothing to do with the mistakes that you cite. Not to say that everything was done perfectly by the prosecution or that they made no mistakes, but ultimately it didn’t matter. The case was lost the minute that the jury was seated. With 9 black jurors out of 12, even a full-color video of OJ slashing the victims’ throats wouldn’t have made a damned bit of difference. It was a jury that walked in ready to acquit the man hell or high water. I remember some of the court room observers like Dominic Dunne recounting during the trial that the jurors would sit on their hands when the prosecution presented its case but feverishly take notes when the defense would cross-examine or rebut. One of them even flashed a black power fist salute at The Juice.
So, the case was over before it started. How did the prosecution fail so badly at jury selection and end up with a 75% black jury form a ~30% black jury pool? Johnny Cochran successfully played the race card. My understanding is that every single time the prosecution challenged a prospective black juror, Cochran approached the bench and cried racism. The result was the prosecution was cowed into not objecting to black jurors. With the defense objecting to every non-black juror, it didn’t take long to swing 9 black jurors with this method. And the rest was history.
Cause of death was either Covid-19 or climate change. In either case, Trump’s fault.
“He doesnt matter”
And neither do you.
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