Trials: One Down

The prosecution appeared to have just about everything going for it: a motive for the murder, the defendant's admitted access to the victim, an eyewitness to describe the killing in gruesome detail, a famous medical expert to support the accuser's testimony and, not least, a prosecutor who had an extraordinary record of 30 murder trials without an acquittal. Yet when the verdict came last week, it was Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey—himself undefeated in 19 homicide cases (TIME, Dec. 9)—who shouted "Hooray!" After just four hours and 27 minutes of deliberation, a...

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