Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prosecutor brought out that Patty had been allowed to go off jogging or walking on her own from the Pennsylvania farmhouse she occupied in the summer of 1974 with S.L.A. Members William and Emily Harris and Wendy
...duel was a dramatic test for both. A conscientious but colorless prosecutor, Browning had been overshadowed throughout the trial by Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey. Browning had not tried a case in six years; instead, he administered the work of his assistants. San Francisco lawyers tended to dismiss him with faint praise ("Jim-well, he's a nice guy"). But the prosecutor was stubbornly confident he would win: he had the facts, he liked to say. Bailey himself had posed the problem that would face Browning when he began the cross-examination that lasted two days. If Browning pressed...
Patty was a composed witness, meeting the questions headon, never saying too much in reply and thus giving the prosecutor a new lead. At one point, Browning took up a line of questioning that seemed to work for Patty rather than against her. He got her to repeat in more detail earlier testimony in which she told how she had been sexually molested by Donald DeFreeze, the self-styled "field marshal" of the S.L.A. who was known as "Cinque." Asked Browning: "Did he pinch one or both of your breasts...
...Well," asked the prosecutor, "what was that feeling...
Browning seemed to have more success when he concentrated on the opportunities that Patty passed up to escape from the S.L.A. The prosecutor stumbled on what was perhaps the most important example, which occurred after she was allowed out of the two tiny closets where she said she had been confined for some two months. Questioning her about life in the terrorists' hideout in Apartment 6 at 1827 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, the prosecutor discovered that the members of the group took turns standing guard...