LAWYER BAILEY IS OUT TO CLEAR NAME OF MUDD

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 5, 1993                   TAG: 9302050314
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short
LAWYER BAILEY IS OUT TO CLEAR NAME OF MUDD
F. Lee Bailey has taken on some tough cases as a defense lawyer. Now he will try to clear the name of the doctor who set the broken leg of President Lincoln's assassin.
Samuel A. Mudd was convicted by an Army court in 1865 as a conspirator in the plot to kill Lincoln. He was sentenced to life in prison, but was freed in 1869.
Bailey, who represented Patty Hearst at her bank robbery trial, will defend Mudd in a mock trial Feb. 12 - Lincoln's birthday - at the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law.
"The Mudd case has always been an enigma," Bailey said. "It's long been a question in American jurisprudence whether he got a fair trial."
Mudd's descendants have waged a long battle to erase the conviction, arguing - as will Bailey - that Mudd did not know assassin John Wilkes Booth well before the shooting and was not involved in any conspiracy.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB