F. Lee Bailey

(Newser) - F. Lee Bailey, a private investigator turned relentless and theatrical defense lawyer whose career fortunes rose and fell but whose fame remained intact, died Thursday. He was 87 and living in a hospice center in the Atlanta area, the Washington Post reports. Bailey represented accused killers, drug lords, and other...

(Newser) - Famed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, whose legion of high-profile cases includes the OJ Simpson murder trial, has filed for bankruptcy in Maine in an effort to discharge an IRS debt of more than $5 million, the AP reports. Debts to the IRS aren't normally discharged in bankruptcy proceedings,...

(Newser) - F. Lee Bailey says OJ Simpson is innocent—and if you don’t believe him, he has a 20,000-word document that backs up his claim. Bailey, a prominent member of the defense team that got Simpson acquitted, published the document—which he originally wrote as a book proposal, but...