马萨诸塞州沃尔瑟姆。——李·贝利，辩护律师名人辛普森一位前同事周四说，派翠西亚·赫斯特和所谓的波士顿扼杀者已经去世，但他的法律生涯因在两个州被取消律师资格而中断。他87岁。

据贝利的前法律合伙人肯尼斯·菲什曼(Kenneth Fishman)说，贝利在亚特兰大地区的一家医院去世，他后来成为马萨诸塞州高等法院的法官。

菲什曼没有透露死亡原因，但表示贝利大约一年前搬到了佐治亚州，以更接近他的一个儿子，并在过去几个月里一直在处理几个医疗问题。

“在许多方面，他是刑事辩护律师在准备和调查方面应该成为的榜样，”菲什曼说，他与贝利的法律联系和友谊始于1975年。

在长达四十多年的职业生涯中，贝利被视为傲慢、以自我为中心、蔑视权威。但他也被公认为大胆、聪明、一丝不苟、不知疲倦地为客户辩护。

1981年9月，贝利在接受《美国新闻和世界报道》采访时说:“法律职业是一个充满自我的行业。"自我意识不强的人很少会被它吸引."

贝利的其他一些高调的客户包括塞缪尔·谢泼德医生(被控杀害他的妻子)和欧内斯特·麦地那上尉，他们被控与越南战争期间米莱大屠杀有关。

贝利是一名狂热的飞行员、畅销书作家和电视节目主持人，也是为辛普森辩护的法律“梦之队”的成员。辛普森曾是NFL的明星，也是一名演员，他被指控在1995年杀害了妻子妮可·布朗·辛普森和她的朋友罗恩·戈德曼，但被判无罪。

在周四的推特上，辛普森说，“我失去了一个很棒的。李·贝利，我们会想念你的。”

辛普森在《波士顿环球报》1996年的一篇报道中说，贝利是这个团队中最有价值的成员。

辛普森说:“他能够简化一切，确定案件中最重要的部分。”。“李列出了这个案子的策略，什么是重要的，什么是不重要的。我认为他对这个案子最重要的部分有惊人的把握，事实证明这是真的。”

审判中最难忘的时刻之一是贝利盘问洛杉矶警方侦探马克·富尔曼，试图将他描绘成一个种族主义者，其目标是陷害辛普森。很经典的贝利。

富尔曼否认使用种族绰号，但辩方后来发现了富尔曼发表种族诽谤的录音。

尽管富尔曼在压力下保持冷静，一些法律专家称这场对抗是平局，但贝利回忆起几个月后的那次交流时说，“那天富尔曼挖了自己的坟墓。”

贝利的新书《辛普森审判的真相:辩护建筑师》将于本月出版。

贝利为他的许多客户赢得了无罪释放，但他也输掉了案件，最著名的是赫斯特的案件。

出版界女继承人赫斯特于1974年2月4日被塞班尼斯解放军恐怖组织绑架，并与该组织一起参与武装抢劫。在审判中，贝利声称她是被迫参与的，因为她担心自己的生命。她仍然被判有罪。

赫斯特称贝利是“无效的律师”，她在一份声明中称审判是“嘲弄、闹剧和骗局”，并签署了减刑动议。赫斯特指责他牺牲她的辩护，以努力获得一个关于此案的图书交易。

吉米·卡特总统减刑后，她于1979年1月获释。

贝利以谢泼德的律师而闻名，谢泼德是俄亥俄州的一名骨科医生，于1954年被判谋杀妻子。

在美国最高法院1966年做出具有里程碑意义的裁决之前，谢泼德在狱中度过了十多年，该裁决认为“大规模、普遍、偏见性的宣传”侵犯了他的权利。贝利在二审中帮助赢得了无罪释放。

贝利还为艾伯特·迪沙佛辩护，他声称对1962年至1964年间波士顿扼杀者谋杀案负责。迪沙佛承认了杀戮，但从未被审判或定罪，后来又反悔了。尽管对迪沙佛的说法有所怀疑，贝利仍然坚持迪沙佛是扼杀者。

在他的整个职业生涯中，贝利以他有时粗鲁的风格和他对公众的追求与当局对抗。1970年，他因“极端自我中心的哲学”被马萨诸塞州的一名法官指责，并于1971年在新泽西州因公开谈论一个案件而被剥夺律师资格一年。

但菲什曼说，宣传是他策略的一部分。

“享受公众的目光成了他的一个工具，”菲什曼说。“他是第一批走出法庭，在一堆麦克风前说话的律师之一。关于一个案件的所有消息都是来自检方。所以他的策略是走出去，对所有的刑事指控提出质疑。”

贝利于2001年在佛罗里达州被取消律师资格，第二年在马萨诸塞州被取消律师资格，因为他在1994年处理了一名被定罪的毒品走私犯拥有的数百万美元股票。1996年，在拒绝交出股票后，他被指控藐视法庭，在联邦监狱呆了将近六周。这段经历让他“很痛苦”。

他于2013年通过了缅因州的律师考试，但被该州最高法院剥夺了执业权利，最高法院的结论是，他没有表明他理解导致他在其他州被吊销律师资格的行为的严重性。

李焯雄·贝利出生在波士顿郊区的沃尔瑟姆，他的父亲是一名报纸广告人，母亲是一名教师。

他于1950年进入哈佛大学，但在大二结束时离开，接受训练成为一名海军飞行员。他一生热爱飞行，甚至拥有自己的航空公司。

在军队服役期间，贝利自愿成为北卡罗来纳州切利角海军陆战队航空站的法律人员，并很快成为2000多人的法律官员。

贝利于1960年获得波士顿大学的法律学位，平均成绩为90.5，但他没有获得荣誉就毕业了，因为他拒绝加入《法律评论》。他说，该大学放弃了本科学位的要求，因为他有军事法律经验。

贝利结过四次婚，离过三次婚。他的第四任妻子帕特里夏于1999年去世。他有三个孩子。

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这个故事经过编辑，以澄清虽然他通过了缅因州的律师考试，但贝利不被允许在该州从事法律工作。

Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey dead at 87

WALTHAM, Mass. -- F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defendedO.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday. He was 87.

Bailey died at a hospital in the Atlanta area, according to Kenneth Fishman, Bailey's former law partner who went on to become a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts.

Fishman did not disclose the cause of death but said Bailey had moved to Georgia about a year ago to be closer to one of his sons and had been dealing with several medical issues for the past few months.

“In many respects, he was the model of what a criminal defense attorney should be in terms of preparation and investigation," said Fishman, whose legal association and friendship with Bailey dates to 1975.

In a career that lasted more than four decades, Bailey was seen as arrogant, egocentric and contemptuous of authority. But he was also acknowledged as bold, brilliant, meticulous and tireless in the defense of his clients.

“The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos,” Bailey said an in interview with U.S. News and World Report in September 1981. “Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.”

Some of Bailey’s other high-profile clients included Dr. Samuel Sheppard — accused of killing his wife — and Capt. Ernest Medina, charged in connection with the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.

Bailey, an avid pilot, best-selling author and television show host, was a member of the legal “dream team” that defended Simpson, the former star NFL running back and actor acquitted on charges that he killed his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in 1995.

In a tweet Thursday, Simpson said, “I lost a great one. F Lee Bailey you will be missed.”

Bailey was the most valuable member of the team, Simpson said in a 1996 story in The Boston Globe Magazine.

“He was able to simplify everything and identify what the most vital parts of the case were,” Simpson said. “Lee laid down what the case’s strategy was, what was going to be important and what was not. I thought he had an amazing grasp of what was going to be the most important parts of the case, and that turned out to be true.”

One of the most memorable moments of the trial came when Bailey cross-examined Los Angeles police Detective Mark Fuhrman in an attempt to portray him as a racist whose goal was to frame Simpson. It was classic Bailey.

Fuhrman denied using racial epithets, but the defense later turned up recordings of Fuhrman making racist slurs.

Even though Fuhrman remained cool under pressure, and some legal experts called the confrontation a draw, Bailey, recalling the exchange months later, said, “That was the day Fuhrman dug his own grave.”

Bailey’s latest book, “The Truth About the O.J. Simpson Trial: By The Architect of the Defense,” was being released this month.

Bailey earned acquittals for many of his clients, but he also lost cases, most notably Hearst’s.

Hearst, a publishing heiress, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist group on Feb. 4, 1974, and participated in armed robberies with the group. At trial, Bailey claimed she was coerced into participating because she feared for her life. She still was convicted.

Hearst called Bailey an “ineffective counsel” who reduced the trial to “a mockery, a farce, and a sham,” in a declaration she signed with a motion to reduce her sentence. Hearst accused him of sacrificing her defense in an effort to get a book deal about the case.

She was released in January 1979 after President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence.

Bailey made his name as the attorney for Sheppard, an Ohio osteopath convicted in 1954 of murdering his wife.

Sheppard spent more than a decade behind bars before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark 1966 decision that “massive, pervasive, prejudicial publicity” had violated his rights. Bailey helped win an acquittal at a second trial.

Bailey also defended Albert DeSalvo, the man who claimed responsibility for the Boston Strangler murders between 1962 and 1964. DeSalvo confessed to the slayings, but was never tried or convicted, and later recanted. Despite doubts thrown on DeSalvo’s claim, Bailey always maintained that DeSalvo was the strangler.

Throughout his career, Bailey antagonized authorities with his sometimes abrasive style and his quest for publicity. He was censured by a Massachusetts judge in 1970 for “his philosophy of extreme egocentricity,” and was disbarred for a year in New Jersey in 1971 for talking publicly about a case.

But publicity was part of his strategy, Fishman said.

“Enjoying the public eye became a tool for him," Fishman said. “He was one of the first lawyers to go outside the courtroom and talk in front of a bunch of microphones. All the news about a case was from the prosecution's side. So his strategy was to get out there and throw doubt on all the criminal charges."

Bailey was disbarred in Florida in 2001 and the next year in Massachusetts for the way he handled millions of dollars in stock owned by a convicted drug smuggler in 1994. He spent almost six weeks in federal prison charged with contempt of court in 1996 after refusing to turn over the stock. The experience left him “embittered.”

He passed the bar exam in Maine in 2013, but was denied the right to practice by the state's highest court, which concluded that he had not demonstrated that he understood the seriousness of his actions that led to his disbarment in the other states.

Francis Lee Bailey was born in the Boston suburb of Waltham, the son of a newspaper advertising man and a schoolteacher.

He enrolled at Harvard University in 1950 but left at the end of his sophomore year to train to become a Marine pilot. He retained a lifelong love of flying and even owned his own aviation company.

While in the military, Bailey volunteered for the legal staff at the Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina, and soon found himself the legal officer for more than 2,000 men.

Bailey earned a law degree from Boston University in 1960, where he had a 90.5 average, but he graduated without honors because he refused to join the Law Review. He said the university waived the requirement for an undergraduate degree because of his military legal experience.

Bailey was married four times and divorced three. His fourth wife, Patricia, died in 1999. He had three children.

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This story has been edited to clarify that although he passed the Maine bar exam, Bailey was not allowed to practice law in the state.