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Having defended numerous high-profile defendants since the 1960's, F. Lee Bailey was an accomplished defense attorney at the time of the Simpson trial. Bailey's clients included the likes of the Samuel Sheppard, the doctor who was accused of murdering his wife, and who became the inspiration for the television series and movie The Fugitive.
The weekend before Simpson's preliminary hearing, Bailey was contacted by his friend, Robert Shapiro, who asked him to assist in the defense of Simpson. The two defense attorneys were quite close. Bailey had been named as godfather to Shapiro's oldest child. Bailey had favorably defended Shapiro in a drunk driving case twelve years prior to the Simpson case. When Bailey himself had been charged with drunk driving, he used his friend Shapiro to successfully represent him. Alcohol seemed to be one of Bailey's weaknesses. The first lines of his 1975 memoir read, "Heavy trials make me thirsty."