Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailey is nothing if not confident...
...S.L.A.'s April 1974 robbery of $10,600 from a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco. In his effort to convict her of armed bank robbery?which carries a sentence of up to 25 years?Prosecutor James Browning, 42, plans to prove that she was there willingly. In response, Bailey will try to convince Patty's mostly middle-class jury of five men and seven women, only five with children of their own, that she took part in the holdup only because she had in effect been brainwashed by her S.L.A. captors during the twelve weeks since they had kidnaped...
When the trial opened, the courtroom was jammed with 100 reporters in a box facing the jury, some 90 spectators and assorted attorneys, aides and badge-wearing U.S. marshals posted along the walls and aisles. Patty Hearst, wearing a beige pin-stripe pantsuit and salmon nail polish, sat near Bailey at the defense table...
Frankel has an ally, in spirit at least, in none other than F. Lee Bailey. While he might not endorse all of the specific Frankel propositions, Bailey is a longtime critic of the system he knows how to use so well. "We've got to start putting the emphasis on justice rather than game-playing," he says. One pet Bailey prescription is the use of a lie detector on anyone vital to a trial. Courts continue to be reluctant right up to and including the Hearst trial to admit polygraph results as evidence, because they believe their reliability...
Such far-reaching changes are not going to happen in time to affect the present task in hand for Bailey?unless he manages to win the admission of Patty's polygraph results despite prosecution objections. For the most part, though, Bailey will have to go with and at the system as it is. Whatever his critics' or opponents' reactions may be, Bailey is sure to enjoy himself. He always does. Last week as the men and women of the jury first took their seats, Bailey's large, seamed face eased into a grin...