Word: baileys
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Browning won one duel with Bailey, only to throw the victory away by committing the worst gaffe of his crossexamination. With the jury out of the room, he persuaded Judge Carter to bar the defense from discussing the threats against the Hearsts that have occurred since the trial began, and the bombing on Feb. 12 at San Simeon, the former estate of Patriarch William Randolph Hearst. (At week's end, the FBI and local police arrested six people with alleged connections to the New World Liberation Front, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the San Simeon bombing...
...What do you mean?" Browning snapped, and then, realizing what he had done, tried to withdraw the question. But Bailey was on his feet demanding that his client be allowed to answer, and Judge Carter ruled in his favor. Patty then proceeded to tell the startled jury, which had been shielded from the facts, about the bombing at San Simeon, adding that "my parents received a letter threatening my life if I took the witness stand, and they wanted a quarter of a million dollars put into the Bill and Emily Harris Defense Fund...
After Browning completed his cross-examination of Patty on Friday, Bailey introduced a witness who supported her story. Ulysses Hall, a tall, athletic black man, told the jury that DeFreeze, whom he had met while they were both in jail, had invited him to join his organization. Hall said that he declined the offer, but spoke to DeFreeze after the bank robbery. DeFreeze, he said, told him that he had had three ways of handling Patty: to kill her; to turn her loose; or to adopt the course that he chose-"put her in a position where...
Before the crossexamination, the week had begun with typical bits of spectacular stage-managing by Bailey to drive home to the jury the horrors that his client faced while being held captive by the S.L.A. The jurors were taken to see the two closets that Patty claimed had been her tiny prison cells after her abduction. The expedition turned out to be a mob-and-media event that might have been conceived by Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust...
...third floor-an unoccupied studio apartment that had been rented to the S.L.A. for $125 a month. One by one, the jurors walked into the closet that Patty said had been her jail for about four weeks. It was 19 in. wide and 60 in. long. Albert Johnson, Bailey's portly assistant, could not squeeze inside. Patty briefly entered the chamber. "She cried, she sobbed," Johnson reported. "I had to hold her up. I thought she was going to faint." White as death, Patty was hustled out of the building by marshals, escorted through the churning mob and virtually...