Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailey was clearly worried about the impact that Patty's repeated citing of the Fifth and Judge Carter's warning would have on the jury. "The Government got what it wanted," he said later in bitterness. "They embarrassed her. The damage is done...
Patty's case also appeared to be damaged by Carter's decision to allow into evidence another controversial item: a tape made by the authorities of a jailhouse conversation between Patty and a visiting friend shortly after the defendant was captured on Sept. 18. Bailey argued that making the tape was an invasion of Patty's rights to privacy. Carter cited the "basic rule" that there was no right to privacy in jail...
...statements that undercut her basic defense that she had cooperated with the S.L.A. out of fear alone. Patty said she had been "pissed off' by her capture and that she had "a revolutionary feminist" viewpoint. She added: "My politics are real different from way back when." Questioned by Bailey, Patty said she had made the statements because of her fear of the Harrises. At the time, Emily Harris was assigned the cell adjoining hers...
...page document that he wrote with Margaret Singer, a Berkeley psychologist, West raised doubts that Patty was then competent to stand trial. He also concluded that she was so thoroughly influenced by her captors that she had no choice but to go along on the bank robbery. Backing up Bailey's claims, West said that Patty had experienced "a classic example of 'coercive persuasion.' It was a case of be accepted [by the S.L.A.] or be killed...
Childlike Level. Bailey let West talk on and on, a tactic that angered Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bancroft. Carter agreed with Bancroft, telling Bailey to stick to questions and answers. But in time Carter grew irritated with Bancroft's protests and said: "If you say he [Bailey] doesn't have the right to object I'll tell you to go soak your head." (Albert Johnson, Bailey's assistant, later gave Bancroft a bottle of shampoo...