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...duel was a dramatic test for both. A conscientious but colorless prosecutor, Browning had been overshadowed throughout the trial by Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey. Browning had not tried a case in six years; instead, he administered the work of his assistants. San Francisco lawyers tended to dismiss him with faint praise ("Jim-well, he's a nice guy"). But the prosecutor was stubbornly confident he would win: he had the facts, he liked to say. Bailey himself had posed the problem that would face Browning when he began the cross-examination that lasted two days. If Browning pressed...
...jury followed that exchange intently. Not only were there seven women in the box, but the number of children per juror averaged 3.5-a fact that had pleased Bailey. He assumed that such a jury would be sympathetic to the plight of a girl who was 19 when she was seized...
Patty seemed to be controlling the interrogation when Browning raised the question of her relations with William Wolfe. On one of her Tania tapes, Patty had said that she loved Wolfe, whom she had called "Cujo." Under Bailey's direct examination, however, she testified that Wolfe had raped her while she was imprisoned in a cramped closet in Daly City, just south of San Francisco...
...Bailey, interrupting: "She didn't say that...
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...