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Prosecutor Bancroft, 38, a husky, tenacious man, tried the psychiatrist's temper during cross-examination but failed to shake his testimony or to attack his credentials successfully. Oddly, the prosecution did not bring up one bizarre episode in West's career: killing an elephant with an overdose of LSD. West was trying to find out why elephants have periods of madness. Bancroft also tried to no avail to show that West was habitually soft on defendants. West did add one interesting point: after Jack Ruby was convicted for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the psychiatrist was called...
...Bancroft had little more success in trying to show that West was an ally of the Hearsts. West did admit that he had sent the parents a sympathetic letter before the arrest advising them that their daughter "might turn out to be in a condition to be helped and possibly defended." West added that he wrote the letter "as one parent to another. I got no reply and didn't expect...
...voice heavy with sarcasm, Bancroft tried to show that West had jumped to some conclusions while examining Patty. The prosecutor recalled that West testified that the defendant had been deprived of sleep-a classic brainwashing technique-although his report stated that she had been awakened at night only once. How did West decide that Patty had really lost sleep, Bancroft wanted to know. "An educated guess," responded the psychiatrist. "So," Bancroft shot back, "you made an 'educated guess' on one of the most important parts of the deprivation concept...
Classic Syndrome. West acknowledged to Bancroft that sometimes he found it a "significant" reflection of Patty's mental state when she protested her treatment by the S.L.A., and sometimes when she did not. Asked Bancroft incredulously: "You find it 'significant' when she does complain and 'significant' when she doesn't complain...
...Bancroft also succeeded in showing that Patty had had some problems of her own before she was abducted. He got West to acknowledge that Patty had attended five schools in six years, in part because of disciplinary problems. "Didn't you know that she was kicked out of Sacred Heart for telling a nun to go to hell?" asked Bancroft. Patty smiled; West admitted that he knew it. West also said that Patty had smoked marijuana with her fiancé Steven Weed-a point that stimulated Bailey to interject: "Is this to say anyone who 'toots' grass...