F. Lee Bailey

They were giving him very bad advice.

F. Lee Bailey was telling him to take the witness stand.

I said, if you take the witness stand, I'm quitting this case.

I am not Dr. Kevorkian.

Schmid, now dubbed the Pied Piper of Tucson by the media, was arrested and put on trial for the murders of Aline Rowe, Gretchen Fritz, and Wendy Fritz.

The case garnered significant attention, with renowned attorney F. Lee Bailey, known for his work on the Boston Strangler case and later the O.J. Simpson trial, brought in as a consultant.

In 1966, Schmid was found guilty of murder, receiving a sentence of fifty years to life for Rowe's death and the death penalty for the Fritz sisters' murders.

When the Arizona Supreme Court abolished the death penalty, Schmid's sentence was commuted to life in prison.

Smitty contacted another lawyer, Percy Foreman, who could not take the case, but who criticized Tinney for not using psychiatric testimony.

After hearing an interview by Smitty on a radio station, he contacted F. Lee Bailey to see if he might be interested.

He was.

He figured he could crack this case open the way he had with the Shepard case.

Brown.

Also, but also, I think one of the most underrated performances in that is Nathan Lane as F. Lee Bailey.

He...

Really, I think this was a great foreshadowing of the performance that we would get several years later of him as Roy Cohn in Angels in America.

Johnny Cochran was a magical charismatic figure.

F. Lee Bailey is cross-examination of Mark Furman.

I mean, some people that have seen me in trial, I'm very aggressive when I find a weakness and a witness.

And I still take a lot from what I saw F. Lee Bailey do to Mark Furman.

I mean, it was a masterclass of a cross-examination.

And then Barry Sheck with the DNA.

Now, you

could have become F. Lee Bailey and you still wouldn't have

the galvanizing power that Dana has.

Right.

One is the song is from the perspective of Lee Harvey Oswald's wife making a plea to make different choices in his life rather than shoot John F. Kennedy.

Other people have speculated it is about F. Lee Bailey, the famous showbiz defense lawyer best known for defending O.J. Simpson in that episode.

legend day 90s trial would be a weird choice for morrissey at that point because this is his big album that's all about him living in rome this very la reference but maybe we'll never know and in fact i am right and it is lee ryan and they had a secret little gay affair much as lee ryan of course had a little secret gay affair with duncan james write your own fan fictions on that and don't send them to me thank you for that This speculation about who Lee is really the only thing of interest here.

You know, good for Morrissey for having a weird resurgence as a singles act in your late 40s.

I love

the F. Lee Bailey.

Yeah, F. Lee

Bailey was his lawyer.

Yeah, and I bet he's the only client that he got money back from.

Yes, because in one of the last episodes of Cocaine Error, He retains F. Lee Bailey.

I think it was for a couple hundred thousand dollars.

And F. Lee Bailey says, after hemming and hawing and weeks of motions for this and motions for that, F. Lee Bailey says, you just got to plead guilty.

But guess what? When truth is on your side.

I don't think you could be F. Lee Bailey and Robert Shapiro and Johnny Cochran and that whole slew of attorneys that O.J. Simpson had, and people will see through it.

Mike?

Yeah, Bill, there's that old expression.