Francis Lee Bailey Jr., commonly referred to as F. Lee Bailey, (born June 10, 1933) is an American attorney licensed to practice in Maine. For most of his career, he was licensed in Massachusetts and Florida. He is a criminal defense attorney who served as the lawyer in the Sam Sheppard re-trial. He was also the supervisory attorney over attorney Mark J. Kadish in the court martial of Captain Ernest Medina for the My Lai Massacre, among other high-profile trials, and was one of the lawyers for the defense in the O. J. Simpson murder case. He has also had a number of visible defeats, legal controversies, and personal trouble with the law, and was disbarred in Massachusetts and Florida for misconduct while defending his client Claude DuBoc. He was allowed to practice law again in July 2013.