Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willingly have joined her kidnapers, the tiny violent sect known as the Symbionese Liberation Army? And-as the Government charges-did she willingly help rob a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco on April 15, 1974? Patty's defense, announced weeks ago by Attorney F. Lee Bailey (TIME cover, Feb. 16), was that she had been brainwashed. The central issue was once put succinctly by Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter, who is presiding over the trial in San Francisco: "Legally it boils down to a question of whether you believe her, and how much you believe...
...Where?" asked Bailey...
...that point Patty was obviously distressed and Judge Carter recessed the trial. Bailey intends to call the defendant again this week to continue her story of her 19 months with the S.L.A. She is expected to elaborate on testimony that she gave earlier last week during some preliminaries. The procedure-a kind of trial within a trial-was caused by the plan of U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr. to introduce the famous tapes from Tania and an "interview" with Patty while on the run. Browning also wanted to call witnesses of events that occurred after the bank robbery. Bailey...
...decide the issue, Judge Carter barred the jury and Patty got her first opportunity to tell her story to him. Led gently by Bailey, Patty explained away her bizarre conduct by insisting that she had been coerced by the S.L.A. from the moment she was kidnaped. At one point, she said, "I was put in a garbage can that was tied up and put in the trunk of the car." She related how she had been confined for "a month, month and a half in a stifling closet. During part of this time she was bound and gagged...
...Bailey has no betters at his specialty of defending those accused of heinous crime; perhaps he has no equals. But there are now many more lawyers in the criminal field than ever before because of Supreme Court decisions that dramatically expanded the right to counsel. And, taking advantage of the expanded rights of defendants, the criminal lawyers are swamping courts with every motion and maneuver conceivable?thereby increasing already heavy administrative pressures to plea bargain...