Maine’s high court denies F. Lee Bailey’s bid to return to practicing law
F. Lee Bailey, the famed defense attorney who sought to make a comeback in Maine after being disbarred more than a decade ago, lost his bid to practice law on a split decision Thursday by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
The court denied Bailey in a 4-2 decision, saying the lawyer who helped to win acquittals for celebrity defendants O.J. Simpson and Dr. Sam Sheppard had “failed to demonstrate that he is sufficiently rehabilitated by proving that it is highly probable that he recognizes the wrongfulness and seriousness of most of the misconduct he committed.”
The court overturned a previous decision by a single judge on the Supreme Judicial Court. Justice Donald Alexander had found that Bailey re-established the good character he needed to be admitted to the Maine bar.
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Over the course of his career, Bailey represented clients who captured national attention, from newspaper heiress-turned-bank robber Patty Hearst to Albert DeSalvo, the suspected “Boston Strangler,” to Army Capt. Ernest Medina in his 1971 court-martial for the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
Bailey’s career reached a bitter end in 2001, when the Florida Supreme Court found unanimously that he had mishandled stock forfeited by a drug-smuggling client. That disbarment was followed by a reciprocal disbarment in Massachusetts in 2003.
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No, eighty. Must be running out of money. Payback's a female canine, isn't it?
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