F. Lee Bailey, lawyer for O.J. Simpson, dies at 87
Bailey was part of the noted dream team who successfully defended the athlete-turned-actor in his double-murder trial. Francis Lee Bailey, who was part of the defense team that successfully defended O.J. Simpson in his notorious 1995 murder trial, has died in Atlanta at the age of 87.
Simpson was certainly not Bailey’s first high-profile client. The attorney also defended kidnapped heiress
Patty Hearst, the Boston Strangler and an army commander of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
Attorney F. Lee Bailey (center) arrives to the April 2005 funeral services for lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. at the West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
the defense now feels confident they have a racist who planted evidence, a charge furhman denies today and refused to address at the time. detective furhman, did you plant or manufacture any evidence in this case? i assert my fifth amendment privilege. he refused to answer that question on the grounds it might tend to incriminate him. what more does anyone need? furhman is disgraced and dismissed from the case. there s no doubt, furhman s a liar. coming up if it doesn t fit, you must acquit. the unforgettable closing arguments. he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn s disease. and that in clinical studies,
what do you remember the most about fung getting torn apart? oh, man. does that refresh your recollection? are you sure of that? barry scheck is one heck of an attorney. you truly believe that evidence was planted? yes. from this day until the day i die, i think it was planted. who do they say planted the evidence? mike gur man. did you find a glove inthe bronco, detective furhman? no did you ever, for a moment, believe that the police wanted to frame o.j. simpson? frame him? i think that was in furhman s mind. and you say on your oath that you have not addressed any black person as a nigger or spoken about black people as niggers in the past ten years, detective furhman?
did you find a glove in the bronco, detective furhman? no. you did not? no. did you ever, for a moment, believe that the police wanted to frame o.j. simpson? frame him? i think that was in furhman s mind. and you say on your oath that you have not addressed any black person as a nigger or spoken about black people as niggers in the past ten years, detective furhman? that s what i m saying, sir. so that anyone that comes to this court and quotes you as using that word in dealing with african-americans would be a liar, would they not? yes, they would. all of them? all of them. i was focused on mark furhman, his every twitch, his every eye movement and so forth.
dozens of times but judge ito decides the jury will only hear two. the excerpts are brief, yet powerful and disturbing. after the excerpt ended of the furhman tapes, you broke down and cried at that moment. why? because i was worried about the ramifications because i watched them with this look of horror and disgust and watched them turn. i was like, that s it. that s it. furhman had lied on the stand and used a racial slur. the defense now feels confident they have a racist who planted evidence, a charge furhman denies today and refused to address at the time. detective furhman, did you