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Does not cover writing books to 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. >> 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 time before i felt like i was ...

California to finish her sentence. >> i was required by george martinez to fill out new papers 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. he's a boston lawyer who spent years in san francisco, away from his family. and as soon as she hooks up with bernie saw, she cuts out johnson dead, and they never speak again. >> i was upset by it, ob...

He was safe. >> tonight after living a double life for 25 years, she was quietly arrested in st. haul. >> she was not the same person by appearance 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 to looking at some o 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 his...

Offensive to change public opinion to get jimmy carter to commute her sentence. she doled out interviews to sympathetic reporters who didn't know all the facts of the case. >> they focused on the victim part exclusively. since she's been observed on television and in magazines as a victim and not as an urban guerrilla, the narrative has been altered dramatically. so it's not that hard to pull off. when you have a media empire that's barking your play, that's a big play. >> her family recruits democrats, republicans, ronald reagan also endorses this effort. >> you can't blame patty hearst for t...

We could be prosecuted and that's the carmichael bank robbery. >> during her trial for robbing the hybernia bank, the fbi agent that was in charge of the case at the time, he said he would be willing to offer patricia hearst immunity, not for the bank robbery, but for other circumstances, if she would make herself available to the fbi. >> right now patricia hearst has her own version of the bank robbery. ms. hearst named a half does ze members of the sla team. >> we had been accused in the newspaper of involvement in the carmichael bank robbery as early