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Shooting. >> the sentence could have been as much as 15 years to life. >> the l.a. case was the worst case for her. there was tons of evidence against her in l.a. there was probably at least a year between our case in l.a. and their case. when we were arrested, we only r remained in the san mateo jail for four days. >> a los angeles jury found william and emily harris guilty today of the kidnapping and robbery of a sporting goods store. >> we were convicted to a since six-year term. as soon as we were convicted we could tell there was pressure from the judge. he was very familiar with the evid...

Quietly arrested in st. haul. >> 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 who didn't 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. we were overwhelmed. we just couldn't believe that nobody had been prosecuted for the murder. john was outraged. so he made it his own mission to do what he could to try to get justice for hiss mom. >> i'm very happy that my mother's murder is getting a...

Make money about how you committed a capital crime and being a get away driver in a bank where murder occurs, makes the driver liable for murder in the first-degree. >> patted -- patty, you've never been tried for that. >> no. >> president carter commutes her on the bank robbery charge. he doesn't commute her on any other case. she's still got this murder case hanging over her head. >> patricia hearst had written her book, so most of the details were out there to kind of lead them where to find the evidence, but the years kept going by and by and still nothing had happened. >> it took a long t...

Edges -- exposed again to prosecution in the carmichael case. >> i believe there's direct and sufficient evidence to file criminal proceedings for the murder. >> i was arrested and charged with the murder of mirna. and it was way worse for me that time, because i had a family. i was really angry. i had already done the time. i got out of prison the first time on april 26, 1983. and from that time on, i've lived an exemplary life. i became a well-respected investigator for lawyers. emily and i got divorced in maybe '86 or'87. and we did that because she was in a long-term relationship with a wo...

Opinion, to get gemjimmy carter commute her sentence. she doled out interviews to sympathetic reporters who didn't know all the facts of the case. >> they focussed on the victim part exclusively. since she's been observed on television and in magazines as a victim and not as an urban guerilla, the narrative is likely altered dramatic lay. so it's not that hard to pull off. when you have a media empire that's backing your play, that's a big deal. >> her family recruits democrats, republicans, ronald reagan also endorses this effort. >> you can't blame patty hearst for that. you can't blame her ...