On this day, Dec. 21, in 1954, Dr. Sam Sheppard was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, a decision that was later overturned and inspired a television series and movie. Marilyn Sheppard was killed ...
“What we say and do here will be heard in all the states of the Union,” cried white-haired Defense Attorney William J. Corrigan. Day after day, some 50 reporters crowded into a stuffy Cleveland ...
WALTHAM, Mass.WALTHAM, Mass. — F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in ...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors in New Mexico have dismissed a drunken-driving charge against actor and playwright Sam Shepard. The Magistrate Court dismissal said there was no likelihood the case ...
WALTHAM, Mass.WALTHAM, Mass. — F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in ...