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F Lee Bailey, Celebrity Attorney who Represented OJ Simpson, Dies at 87

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Washington Post reported June 3. Born Francis Lee Bailey, Jr., the attorney rose to prominence when he helped acquit physician Samuel Sheppard on charges of murdering his spouse in 1954 after arguing that excessive publicity around the case didn’t allow Sheppard a fair and unbiased trial.

After acquitting Sheppard Bailey went on to represent a host of high-profile alleged killers, including Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler who admitted to killing 13 women in the Boston, Ma.

area in the early 1960s. DeSalvo negotiated a shrewd deal in which DeSalvo confessed to the murders in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.

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