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From the first, the family of Samuel Bronfman II figured on a guilty verdict for the two men accused of kidnaping the young Seagram liquor heir. Anything less would be a slap at Sam and them-a judgment that the "victim" had really masterminded the crime for the $2.3 million ransom. Late last week, as 120 people crowded the White Plains, N.Y., courtroom, the jury filed back after 19 hours and 30 minutes of deliberation and delivered a stunning decision: not guilty of kidnaping...
...Bronfman entourage* reacted swiftly and angrily. Jonathan Rinehart. a family spokesman, called the verdict an ''outrageous travesty." Said...
...Bronfman, 23: "I think it's a pretty sad system when you have a guy who gets kidnaped and his kidnapers are caught red-handed and they...
Interviewed by TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, Bronfman recalled in a husky voice how he felt during what he has often described as his nine-day ordeal in August 1975: "You've only one thought in mind: staying alive. As long as you are alive, you are alive. The only thing I feared was death." He claimed that Lynch once told him that he had made a mistake in undertaking the kidnaping. The wrenching experience of the trial, Bronfman said, made him sympathetic with Patty Hearst. "I am more cynical and skeptical." Added Bronfman, who has continued to work...
...jury's verdict-which casts doubt on all of Bronfman's claims about the kidnaping-may not permit him to slip peacefully into obscurity. Several jurors at trial's end openly charged him with engineering his own abduction. Said one. Mrs. Amelia Dricot, a house wife from Mount Vernon, N.Y.: "I think he planned the whole operation." As early as the first evening of the jury's deliberation, eight jurors voted to acquit the defendants, two wanted to convict, and two remained undecided...