Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, just two days later, Patty signed a five-page affidavit prepared by her lawyers for release in court. The remarkable document claimed that far from being the swaggering, dedicated rebel she had described to her friend, she had been forced to become a revolutionary by her captors in the Symbionese Liberation Army. What was more, she yearned to return to her family...
Which Patty Hearst was telling the truth? A preliminary determination will be made by Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter, who must decide-perhaps as early as this week-whether or not Patty is a safe risk to be released on $1.5 million bail. When the affidavit supporting Patty's plea for bail was presented in court, the prosecution gained the right to call her to the stand to defend her statements. To determine if Patty is capable of testifying, Judge Carter appointed four experts to examine the celebrated prisoner: Psychiatrists Seymour Pollack of the University of Southern California, Donald...
Carter gave each of the four a copy of the affidavit plus a transcript of the conversation between Patty and Trish Tobin, which had been taped by jail authorities. The Hearsts' lawyers and the prosecutors clashed bitterly over the propriety of taping and releasing the private conversation. Attorney Terence Hallinan, one of Patty's lawyers, condemned the practice as "unethical," and declared: "I think that the U.S. Attorney is jeopardizing his whole case by the tricks he's using...
...examination of Patty in time for another bail hearing early this week. Her father Randolph, chairman of the Hearst Corp., is ready and willing to put up the $1.5 million bail and has agreed to meet any conditions imposed by the court to keep Patty from fleeing. In an affidavit of his own, which was mocked by Patty's harsh words on the tape, Hearst declared that his daughter "regards our home as her home, and has expressed, over the past three days, an enthusiastic wish to return to living with her parents...
...Patty does take the stand, the bail hearing-often a commonplace proceeding-could become a dramatic mini-trial that would anticipate any regular trials that follow. Her affidavit described in lurid detail how she had been tortured and threatened so intensively by the S.L.A. that she felt herself to be a psychological as well as a physical captive of her abductors. She told how, after her kidnaping on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, she had been placed in a hot, stifling closet about 5 ft. or 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, her hands bound, her eyes blindfolded...