Word: baileys
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Answered Prayer. In the final week of the trial, Bailey tried desperately-almost savagely-to damage the credibility of one of Browning's most important witnesses: Dr. Joel Fort, a San Francisco physician with psychiatric training, who maintained that Patty had been a willing member of the bank-robbing crew. Indeed, Fort had called the defendant the "queen" of the terrorists. Bailey put on the stand Dr. James Stubblebine, a San Francisco psychiatrist, who testified that Fort had a reputation for being "untrustworthy and not to be believed...
Having done his best to discredit one of the prosecution's most important figures, Bailey later called two witnesses who, he calculated, could hardly be said to be impartial but who could have had a favorable effect upon the jury: Patty's father and mother. Randolph A. Hearst, 60, president of the San Francisco Examiner, is a solemn-faced man these days, but he smiled warmly at his daughter as he settled into the chair. Hearst disputed Dr. Harry Kozol, a psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution that Patty was an incipient rebel before her abduction...
...with Tania, she called her mother "an incredible racist" and said that "my parents were the last people in the world I would go to to talk about anything." Yet Mrs. Hearst described Patty as "a very warm and loving girl," adding, "we always did things as a family." Bailey asked if the alienated girl described by Fort and Kozol had any resemblance to Patty before her kidnaping. "None whatsoever," Catherine Hearst assured the jury...
Browning had often looked inept against Bailey-a local plodder who was simply outclassed by the courtroom celebrity brought in from Boston by the wealthy Hearsts. Yet Judge Carter did not see it that way at all. While the jury was out deciding Patty's fate, Carter thought back over the long and emotional course of the trial and praised the skills of both Bailey and Browning. "I always say, 'God, please send me a couple of good lawyers,' " he told TIME. "I much prefer it to trying a case in which you have one good lawyer...
...When Bailey rose to deliver his summation, the benches were crowded with spectators expecting one of his famed histrionic displays. He did not disappoint them. Disdaining a microphone and speaking without notes, the Richard Burton of the courtroom kept the jurors-and Patty-spellbound for 46 minutes. He made no attempt to review the entire case, as Browning had. Instead, with his voice fading to a whisper and then rising to a shout, Bailey tried to win over the jurors' hearts, if he had not already won over their minds...