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Legal Legacy: Sam Sheppard 'The Fugitive' | The Highland County Press
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Legal Legacy: Sam Sheppard 'The Fugitive' | The Highland County Press
In 1954, a violent crime inside a lakefront Bay Village home drew national attention. Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death, and her husband, osteopathic physician Sam Sheppard, became the prime suspect. The subsequent trial and appeals were among the most highly publicized in Ohio history and later set the standard for how courts manage intense media coverage to protect the defendant’s right to a fair trial.
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