PORTLAND, Maine – Famed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, whose legion of high-profile cases includes the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has filed for bankruptcy in Maine in an effort to discharge an IRS debt of more than $5 million.
Debts to the IRS aren’t normally discharged in bankruptcy proceedings, but the 83-year-old Bailey said Friday that they can be if one abides by certain conditions. The debt stems from a dispute of his reportable income from 1993 to 2001, The Portland Press Herald reported.
Bailey served as one of Simpson’s attorneys during the former NFL star’s 1995 trial, which ended in his acquittal in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Bailey in the 1960s secured a reversal of Dr. Sam Sheppard’s conviction in the murder of his pregnant wife, and an acquittal at his second trial. He also represented Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the Boston Strangler.
PETALUMA, Calif. – A 17-year-old Chinese Crested Chihuahua with legs bowed out like a frog and an oozing sore is the winner of this year’s World’s Ugliest Dog contest.
SweePee Rambo took home the title at the annual Petaluma World’s Ugliest Dog contest Friday night at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds after besting 15 other malformed pooches.
Owner Jason Wurtz, 44, of Encino said he got the dog as a gift for his first wife, but after a week, she didn’t want anything to do with the gremlin-like pooch. Wurtz, however, said he couldn’t bear to let her go.
FORT WORTH, Texas – Police say an unknown number of people exchanged fire in a shooting at a dance studio that left two people dead and at least five people injured.
Police said in a statement Saturday afternoon that the shooters had fled the scene by the time officers arrived shortly after midnight.
One person was shot as he was exiting the studio. The other victims were shot outside of the studio and across the street.
Associated Press
