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Ever worked on any case in my life, and i believed in her and in her defense. >> she was on the hook for a very grisly first-degree murder, and we got her out of that. had that been understood at the time, the hearst case would have been labeled as a major victory. and randy and kathryn hearst understood, and they were very grateful for it. if patty ever said thank you, i dont recall it. >> patricia hearst is asking for a new trial, charging her trial attorney, f. lee bailey, with an ineffective...

>> police say a segment on her by "americas most wanted" was the breakthrough generating tips. tonight after living a double life for 25 years, she was quietly arrested in st. paul. >> she was not the same person by appearance that she was back when she did these horrible things. part of the problem with the case was we were going to have a whole set of jurors that didnt know who the sla was. they would have never heard of them. so that led us into looking at some of the other crimes they did. >...

Federal prison in pleasanton, california, to finish her sentence. >> after that time i was advised by george martinez to turn over the documents which we had acquired to him as new counsel. >> martinez got us fired after we brought him into the case at her request. i mean, we found him through a list of divorce lawyers. so her boyfriend, who had kids and a wife, could get divorced and marry her. >> al johnson, far more than f. lee bailey, devoted his life to patricia hearst. hes a boston lawyer ...

Her the pipe remembered her. i mean, you had a young redheaded girl coming in to buy two pieces of three-inch pipe with caps at the ends of them. it caught his attention. if she was ever caught, id be responsible for the case. quite frankly, i didnt put a lot of effort into it because i had a bunch of other murder cases on my plate and she hadnt been found in 24 years. it was as cold as a case can be. >> at 8:21 this morning, members of the minnesota fugitive task force arrested sara jane olson....

That unless shes just so repressed it that she doesnt even consider it. i dont know. >> its certainly something that i wouldnt want to relive ever. you know, i just think ive really tried to make a life in spite of it. >> if you were to stack patti and tonya next to each other, clearly the most interesting person is tonya. i mean, im still empressed to this very day with her as a comrade. she endeared herself to me over and over again. i remember that person. i remember that person more than i c...

Had two older sons. i was not trying to hide out. i hadnt changed my name. it was a [ bleep ] nightmare that we had to revisit. >> so when the d.a. did file charges against all five sla members that were eligible for being indicted, we were happy that finally these people were going to be held accountable. we soon found out that patricia hearst would probably end up being a star witness in the case. and i remember being asked, well, why wasnt she indicted with the rest of them? >> there were fou...

Arrested, all the shit was going to hit the fan and that we would be exposed again to prosecution in the carmichael case. >> i believe that there is now both direct and circumstantial evidence sufficient to file charges and begin criminal proceedings for the murder of myrna opsahl. >> january 16, 2002, i was arrested and charged with the murder of myrna opsahl. and it was way worse for me at that time because i had a family. i was really angry. i had already done the time. i got out of prison th...

Of the dumbest thing i have ever seen in my life, because immunity does not cover writing books to make money about how you committed a capital crime. and being the getaway driver in a bank where murder occurs makes the driver liable for murder in the first degree. >> patty, youve never been tried for that? >> no. >> president carter commutes her on the bank robbery charge. he doesnt commute her on any other case. shes still got this murder case hanging over her head. >> patricia hearst had writ...

Controlling the narrative. she persuaded the public, by and large, that this was a story about one young woman who was kidnapped and forced to commit one bank robbery. and thats what most people remember about this case. she eliminated mels sporting goods, the bomb is she participated in, the death of myrna ophsel which she was morally responsible for. >> after so many years, it was always patricia hearst who got the limelight and the fascination with celebrity, semi-celebrity. i think everyone ...

>> patty hearst waged a press offensive to change public opinion, to get jimmy carter to commute her sentence. she doled out interviews to sympathetic reporters who didnt know all the facts of the case. >> they focussed on the victim part exclusively. since shes been observed on television and in magazines as a victim and not as an urban guerilla, the narrative is likely altered dramatic lay. so its not that hard to pull off. when you have a media empire thats backing your play, thats a big deal...