F. Lee Bailey
Francis Lee Bailey Jr. was an American criminal defense attorney and author of "The Defense Never Rests."
Background
- Born in
- Waltham
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityHarvard CollegeBoston University School of LawCardigan Mountain SchoolKimball Union Academy
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Trending topics shown first"I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for an…"
"The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter."
"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn’t set up the ground rules."
"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee."
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1933
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Birth2021
Died
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