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...thing was clear, Bailey argued...
Patty had been coerced into joining the S.L.A. and coerced into taking part in the robbery. Every member of the jury, he said, would have participated in the raid, if so ordered by the S.L.A. What is more, said Bailey, the jurors might have gone along even if they had not been intimidated by being held in closets for 57 days, as Patty was. Putting the matter as bluntly as he could, Bailey said that the alternatives faced by Patty were easy "for the most simple-minded person to understand: 'Do what I say or I'll blow...
...have a covenant with death," Bailey said in a voice that had grown husky as the trial went on. "We all are going to die, and we know it. We're all going to postpone that date as long as we can. And Patty Hearst did that, and that is why she is here and you are here...
...experts wondered about what they considered the schizophrenic defense strategy of F. Lee Bailey. Complained Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, president of the Society, Ethics and Life Sciences Institute at Hastings-on-Hud-spn, N.Y.: "There was confusion between brainwashing and coercion. Coercion is when a person does something against his will because he's terrified. Brainwashing is when a person tries to become and to will what somebody else is and wants. It was not clear what the defense wanted to say." Northwestern Law Professor Jon Waltz agreed. "On the one hand, Patty is supposed to be brainwashed," he said...
Other lawyers faulted the defense on different counts. Sam Dash, former majority counsel to the Senate Watergate committee and now head of Georgetown University's Criminal Law Institute, argued that Bailey probably erred seriously when he let Patty take the Fifth Amendment 42 times. Until then, said Dash, "she was saying: 'I was abducted, and temporarily changed, but I'm Patty Hearst again.' This attempt at portraying truth and honesty must have been shattered by the Fifth Amendment invocations. Jurors had to ask, 'Who is she, anyway...