Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Later, Bailey fought hard to prevent the prosecution from entering into evidence any of the 1,000 or so documents, notebooks and papers, including the Tania interview, that had been seized in the Harrises' apartment when they were arrested last Sept. 18. Bailey based his objection on a ruling the day before by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler, who held that material taken from the apartment could not be used in the forthcoming state trial of the Harrises because it had been seized by FBI agents who had not obtained the necessary search warrant.* Browning wanted...
...jury. When asked by Browning about some of the items earlier in the trial, Patty had repeatedly cited her Fifth Amendment rights against selfincrimination 42 times in all, leaving some members of the jury visibly startled. The new material included notes in Patty's handwriting, so stipulated by Bailey, that seemed to be cryptic references to making a time bomb: the "toaster wire: 10 sec; timing device w/fuse; clock (set to minutes) or cigarette (wire in fuse)." There were also more explicit and alarming comments: "place for 'switch' car to be (just in case); lookout signal; meet...
Bitter Clash. Browning then called Dr. Joel Fort, a San Francisco practitioner in mental health. The prosecution hoped that he would offset the eminent defense psychiatrists, who supported Bailey's contention that Patty had been coerced by the S.L.A. into helping to rob the bank. An eye-catching figure with a shaved head, Fort clashed bitterly with Bailey; at one point, the two accused each other of lying. Fort testified that he had interviewed Patty for 15 hours, studied documents on the case for some 300 hours, and even spent an hour in one of the closets where...
...replied Fort, and Bailey leaped to his feet, objecting strenuously that the witness was trying to give the jurors his opinion on "the ultimate issue of this case...
Judge Carter said he would consider Bailey's point over the weekend, and shortly afterward recessed the trial. This week the prosecution is scheduled to call Dr. Harry Kozol, a Massachusetts psychiatrist, to back up its claims that Patty was not a terrified captive of the S.L.A. Some time late this week, the seven women and five men in the jury are expected to get the case and settle down to decide whether Patty Hearst was a prisoner of the S.L.A. on the morning of the robbery-or is lying today...