Word: bail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend, Patricia Tobin, who visited her in jail, Patty described herself as a "revolutionary feminist" who was "pissed off" that she was captured. Her political ideas, she said, "are real different from a way back when." And, she added, she did not want to be released on bail if it meant being "a prisoner in my parents' home...
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...
...doctors hope to complete their 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...
...Hearsts were shaken by the release of the tape hi which Patty said she did not want to live on bail as a "prisoner" in her family's home. On the day the passage was made public, they cut their usual visit with their daughter from 30 minutes to 15. When newsmen asked for their comments on the tape, Mrs. Hearst lost her normal composure and called them a "bunch of ghouls...