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There was just too much evidence against her-not only films showing that she was present but tapes and documents in which she told how she had willingly, even eagerly, taken part in the crime. If Patty Hearst was to convince a jury that she was innocent, she would have to do it herself-sitting alone on the witness stand. Last week Patty got her chance to tell how she had been forced by the death threats of the Symbionese Liberation Army to take part in the robbery of a branch of San Francisco's Hibernia Bank. Then came...
...alone while allegedly driving her back west; she and Wendy Yoshimura, another S.L.A. member, were actually living apart from the Harrises when the quartet was finally arrested. Browning asked Patty why she had not simply fled to a San Francisco police station and said, " 'I am Patricia Hearst. Protect me from the Harrises.' You could have done it, could...
Summing up, Bailey argued against the submission of the tapes and the "interview" because "she should not be convicted on the basis of statements forced from her." In reply, Browning charged that "everything this court has heard from Miss Hearst of coercion during 1½ years is not true...
...after Carter's ruling, there was a brief stir in the courtroom when Randolph Hearst received a message and suddenly left. A bomb had badly damaged a luxurious guest house at San Simeon, where Publishing Tycoon William Randolph Hearst, the family patriarch, had built his private Xanadu. The castle, 250 miles south of San Francisco, is now owned by the state. A little-known terrorist group, the New World Liberation Front, announced that it had set off the violent blast. Unless the Hearsts contributed $250,000 within 48 hours to the defense of the Harrises, warned the unit...
...Patty Hearst on tape, April...