Word: hibernia
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...said, was "well within the evidence presented in this case, and therefore has been accepted." In mid-April, Carter is scheduled to pass sentence on Patty. The maximum-but unlikely-penalty: 35 years in prison (25 for willingly taking part in the armed robbery of a branch of the Hibernia Bank on April 15, 1974; ten for the ancillary charge of use of a firearm while committing a felony). The minimum possible sentence: simple probation...
...attracted "to the purposes of the S.L.A." He attributed this reaction to her poor rapport with her family, a dissatisfaction with her life with Fiance Steven Weed, and a yearning for excitement. He estimated that she had willingly joined the S.L.A. about six weeks before the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco on April...
...communiques ("Mom, Dad, I'm O.K.") seemed to be in her own words. But the psychologist felt that Patty had not composed the belligerent "Tania tapes," in which Patty ridiculed her parents and Fiance Steven Weed, declared that she had willingly taken part in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco and declared herself a revolutionary ("I have chosen to stay and fight"). After studying S.L.A. tapes and writings, Singer decided that these particular messages were probably read by Patty from scripts prepared by Angela Atwood, an S.L.A. ideologue fond of bombast and complex phrasing...
Carter later ruled in Browning's favor on another matter: a defense demand that Patty's case be dismissed because the Government had withheld evidence that might help show the defendant's innocence of the charges against her. At issue were the photographs taken by the Hibernia Bank's security cameras, which clearly showed Patty taking part in the robbery. The defense claimed that the prosecution's reproductions of the pictures left out S.L.A. Member Camilla Hall, who, Patty's lawyers argued, was pointing her carbine at the defendant. Vernon Kipping, the FBI expert...
...rested the defense of Patty Hearst, and Browning returned to the attack in his rebuttal. The prosecutor introduced a surprise witness: Zigurd Berzins, 32, an electronics technician and operator of the "Tweeter's n Woofer" stereo shop .in San Francisco. Berzins said that he had been entering the Hibernia Bank on the morning of April 15, 1974, when he heard a "metallic" noise behind him. Turning, he saw a woman, armed with an M-l carbine, kneeling on the pavement to pick up two ammunition clips and one or two cartridges. Seconds later, said Berzins, he was ordered...