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Defense as brainwashing. the legal version of that defense is called coercive persuasion. in other words, i as a defendant was forced to commit these crimes and therefore, am not guilty. that was the defense that bailey and company put forward at pattys trial. >> e we knew with a high degree of certainty that brainwashing was going to be the defense because it was the only other possible explanation. >> the problem for bailey and the defense was that they had very few options for what to organi ...

Case. >> im primarily here to see mr. bailey. >> its really ramping up. we knew we were in for a fight. the u.s. district attorney was james l. browning jr. in terms of just his manner and his address, you couldnt help but be struck by how square he was. >> he brought in his number one side kick, al johnson. al johnson played an amazing role in the case. he was the one that was very, very close to patty. very protective of her. >> i was shocked to see the extent of emotional disturbance that her...

For years that the reason they put patty hearst on the stand is that they had a ruling from the judge that the cross-examination would be limited just to the bank robbery and the kidnapping. that is not true. >> the judge never ruled that we were not entitled to ask these questions about what happened after the bank robbery. there was never any earlier ruling upon which the defense relied. having testified in your own behalf, you can no longer invoke the fifth amendment on cross-examination. >> ...

About it? it was in my purse for a year and a half? thats not reasonable. >> it was one of the last exhibits to come into the jury. >> it was a significant point in the trial. >> bailey had put patty on the stand so that the jurors could hear in her own words the terror of the kidnapping. that was the upside for the defense of putting her on the stand. but there was a very substantial downside too. >> in the course of that examination, patty ended up testifying to certain circumstances that took...

In boot camp. that was brainwashing. that was breaking you down to nothing and building you back up again. that never happened. bailey was a marine pilot and had a wild hairup his ass about some man sheecheern candidate nonses. ng incredible. capital one has partnered with hotels.com to give venture cardholders 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels. all you have to do is pay with this... at hotels.com/venture. 10 miles per dollar? that is incredible. brrrrr. i have the chill...

Sitting across the table from me. you would have to be an uninformed human being not to know of the trauma she had been through by just looking at her. >> whats he like? >> i only met him like twice. >> whats he like? is he a nice guy? sdm hes okay. hes real patronizing. >> hes not here the whole time. >> he was had real nice. bailey, i just dont know him. he just kind of drifts in and says blah, blah, blah and i just go, oh, okay. >> she writes letters to steve soliah, these dramatic love had l...

So this creates all kinds of problems for me in terms of a defense. >> i mean, its so crazy. shes telling her that she is about to head off to switzerland to go skiing for three weeks. so what you have in this compressed circumstance is the old life skiing in switzerland for three weeks, and patty is saying, i gotta life now. i gotta new life. >> i took the hearst case in september of 75. i pretty much understood from day one that she probably had gone over, so to speak, from constant brainwashi...