Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affidavit foreshadowed three possible defenses...
...Francisco. But she was so disoriented that she had not been able to make contact with her family. The first realization that she had been living in a "fantasy world" came after her arrest when "her mother, her father and her sisters hugged and kissed her." Now, concluded the affidavit, "she is completely convinced of the love and affection of her family and that she will find safety and comfort in its midst . . . She needs help and counseling to restore herself to complete sanity and to the life that she led before the terrible experience which she underwent...
...affidavit was rambling and repetitious, ungrammatical and contradictory in part: at one point, it said Patty was in the closet for "several days"; at another, for "an interminable length of time, which seemed to her to be weeks." But the account made its basic points clear enough...
When she was taken back to her place of captivity, she was told that she was now guilty of bank robbery and murder and that the FBI would shoot her on sight. In her disordered and frightened mind," according to the affidavit, "this appeared to her to be probable...
Introducing the affidavit, Patty's defense was telling the prosecution the general lines of its strategy in the federal and state cases. Says Attorney Vincent Hallinan, the leader of the defense team: "We did something unusual, honest and straightforward. We put the whole defense before the prosecution stated what they were trying to prove." In an interview, Judge Carter said: "The average public doesn't believe one thing she says in that affidavit. But I, for one, intend to look at it and take it on an evidentiary basis...