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Legendary colorful and flamboyant Texas criminal defense attorney Richard "Racehorse" Haynes was born on April 3, 1927 in Houston, Texas. The son of a San Antonio, Texas plasterer, Haynes worked the summers in the oil fields prior to winning a scholarship to the University of Houston. He twice served in the armed forces: He was decorated for heroics at Iwa Jima while serving a stint in the Marine Corps during World War II and was also an Army paratrooper during the Korean War. Following graduation from the Bates College of lag in 1956, Haynes set up his own private practice. A protégé of equally well-regarded defense attorney Percy Foreman, Richard was once referred to as one of the top six criminal lawyers in America by "Time" magazine. Among the people he represented in famous court cases are Houston plastic surgeon John Hill, who was accused of allegedly killing his socialite wife; entertainer Morganna Roberts (a.k.a "The Kissing Bandit"), and wea
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He wasn’t a tall man. At the time storlek seemed like it went part and parcel with being a Houston criminal defense attorney—this was the city that had produced the giant of the species, both literally and figuratively, with one of Richard “Racehorse” Haynes’s key mentors, Percy Foreman, a man who could sweet-talk a jury into doing and thinking anything he wanted. And if that didn’t work, the towering Foreman would dominate them.
At 5’7” Haynes didn’t have physicality on his side, but over his decades in law, he would become one of the most famous criminal defense attorneys in the country in part because of his sharp mind, quick wit, and willingness to do whatever it took—whether that meant using a cattle prod on himself to show a jury that although it “hurts like hell, it’s not deadly,” threatening to put a nail through his own palm to demonstrate that crucifixion wasn’t actually that painful, or cross-examining an empty chair when the p
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Richard Haynes (lawyer)
American lawyer (1927–2017)
Richard "Racehorse" Haynes (April 3, 1927 – April 28, 2017) was a Texascriminal defense attorney. He became a star of the legal world after prevailing in a series of seemingly impossible murder trials in Texas in the 1970s and 1980s.[1]Time magazine named him one of the top defense attorneys in the nation.[1]
Law practice
[edit]A native of Houston, Texas, Haynes graduated from the University of Houston Law Center in 1956, and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas on April 23, 1956.[2] During one stretch, he reportedly won 163 drunk-driving cases in a row.[3] He was involved in landmark cases such as The State of Texas v. John Hill (a basis for journalist and author Thomas Thompson's 1976 book Blood and Money), and the notorious T. Cullen Davismurder and later solicitation of murder trials in Fort Worth, Texas, both of which ended in acquittals.[citation needed] He als