Editing Sam Sheppard (section)

===Appeals===
Sheppard's attorney William Corrigan spent six years making appeals but all were rejected. On July 30, 1961, Corrigan died and [[F. Lee Bailey]] took over as Sheppard's chief counsel. Bailey's petition for a writ of ''[[habeas corpus]]'' was granted on July 15, 1964, by a [[United States district court]] judge who called the 1954 trial a "mockery of justice" that shredded Sheppard's [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment]] right to due process. The State of [[Ohio]] was ordered to release Sheppard on bond and gave the prosecutor 60 days to bring charges against him, otherwise the case would be dismissed permanently.{{sfn|Neff|2001|pp=226–230}} The State of Ohio appealed the ruling to the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit|U.S. Court of Appeals Court for the Sixth Circuit]], which on March 4, 1965, reversed the federal judge's ruling.{{sfn|Neff|2001|p=238}} Bailey appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case in ''[[Sheppard v. Maxwell]]''. On June 6, 1966, the Supreme Court, by an 8-to-1 vote, struck down the murder conviction. The decision noted, among other factors, that a "carnival atmosphere" had permeated the trial, and that the trial judge, [[Edward J. Blythin]],<ref name=statement>{{cite web|title=The Media and the Trial |publisher=Providence.edu |url=http://www.providence.edu/polisci/students/sheppard_trial/media.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613195225/http://www.providence.edu/polisci/students/sheppard_trial/media.htm |archive-date=June 13, 2010}}</ref> who had died in 1958, was biased against Sheppard because Blythin had refused to sequester the jury, did not order the jury to ignore and disregard media reports of the case, and when speaking to newspaper columnist [[Dorothy Kilgallen]] shortly before the trial started said, "Well, he's guilty as hell.  There's no question about it."

Sheppard served 10 years of his sentence. Three days after his 1964 release, he married Ariane Tebbenjohanns, a German divorcee who had corresponded with him during his imprisonment. The two had been engaged since January 1963. Tebbenjohanns endured her own bout of controversy shortly after the engagement had been announced, confirming that her half-sister was [[Magda Goebbels|Magda Ritschel]], the wife of [[Nazism|Nazi]] propaganda chief [[Joseph Goebbels]]. Tebbenjohanns emphasized that she held no Nazi views. On October 7, 1969, Sheppard and Tebbenjohanns divorced.<ref>[http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/sheppard/timeline_ctv.html Court TV Online – Sheppard]  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060514003333/http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/sheppard/timeline_ctv.html |date=May 14, 2006 }}</ref>