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...courtroom. The trial, said one lawyer-spectator, had all the elements of theater?"a script, actors, wardrobe, props." The trial should clear up at least some of the mysteries still shrouding Patty's 19½ months with the Symbionese Liberation Army as Captive Patty and Comrade, willing or not, Tania Hearst. But unless and until Patty takes the stand, the overwhelming presence in the legal drama will not be the Hearst heiress herself but the man who will press her case in court: Boston Attorney F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey...
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...
...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 has not been proved. But, Bailey says, police already commonly use polygraphs in their investigations and "will almost never prosecute a man cleared by their own test. And in the military, the polygraph is considered conclusive." Bailey believes that the real judicial...
...flat tones and almost metronomic cadences, he explained to the jury in minute detail how, among other things, they would be shown film of the bank robbery and hear witnesses who saw a gun-toting girl announce, "This is Tania Hearst." Browning also cited Patty's machine-gunning support of S.L.A. comrades four weeks later at a Los Angeles sporting goods store and a book manuscript prepared by Patty and Emily and William Harris, the only S.L.A. survivors, in which Patty allegedly wrote that she "began to feel sympathy" for the S.L.A. cause and eventually asked to join the group...
...moment she was captured by FBI agents last September, Bailey continued, "her terror mounted to the point which is probably the highest a human being can stand, and she became incontinent." As they listened to Bailey's presentation, Patty's mother Catherine and sister Vicki, sitting next to Randolph Hearst in the first spectator bench, wept quietly...