Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailey may be the matinee idol of Patty Hearst's trial, outthinking, outtalking and very often outclassing U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr. But for all his forensic skills, the famed defense attorney has consistently lost important legal disputes to the plodding prosecutor. Last week Bailey once again suffered more defeats than he scored victories as Patty's case moved into its final stages...
...legal sparring began with a clash between defense and prosecution over whether Judge Oliver J. Carter should allow the jury to hear the testimony of Margaret Singer, a Berkeley psychologist who is an expert at analyzing speech patterns. Bailey wanted Singer to tell the jury that Patty had been reciting her captors' words when she recorded some of her startling messages on tapes that were sent back from the underground world of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Browning, in turn, argued that Singer's kind of testimony should not be heard because of a lack of both legal precedent...
Surprise Witness. With that, Bailey rested the defense of Patty Hearst, and Browning returned to the attack in his rebuttal. The prosecutor introduced a surprise witness: Zigurd Berzins, 32, an electronics technician and operator of the "Tweeter's n Woofer" stereo shop .in San Francisco. Berzins said that he had been entering the Hibernia Bank on the morning of April 15, 1974, when he heard a "metallic" noise behind him. Turning, he saw a woman, armed with an M-l carbine, kneeling on the pavement to pick up two ammunition clips and one or two cartridges. Seconds later, said...
...Didn't you know that she was kicked out of Sacred Heart for telling a nun to go to hell?" asked Bancroft. Patty smiled; West admitted that he knew it. West also said that Patty had smoked marijuana with her fiancé Steven Weed-a point that stimulated Bailey to interject: "Is this to say anyone who 'toots' grass is a bank robber?" West also testified that, at Weed's urging, Patty seemed to have experimented with LSD and mescaline. At the mention of mescaline, Patty looked over at her family and mouthed silently: "I never...
...Bailey's next expert was Dr. Martin Orne, 48, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in detecting when a subject is trying to deceive his questioners. Speaking with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...