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Tonight is the finale of a saga of privilege, politics and violence. the conclusion of the radical story of patty hearst. deta details that capture a trial of the famous american heiress who was kidnapped and joined them in a series of crimes. she was defended by the famed attorney who you may remember was also on to part of o.j. simpson's defense team. here's what he said about the hearst case. >> i must say the worst case i have ever taken on in my life was the united states versus paultty hearst. she was more unpopular than the boston strangler. >> i think the importance of the hearst verdi...

About where she lives. and tonight after living a double life for nearly 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 in the case was we were going to have a whole set of jurors that didn't know who the sla was. they would have never heard of them so that led us to looking at some of the other crimes they did. >> what did you find when you looked at the carmichael crime? >> we were overwhelmed. we just couldn't believe that nobody had been prosecuted for the murder, myrna o...

>> she came from one of the most famous journalistic families in the world. and she understood the power of 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 that's what most people remember about this case. she eliminated mel's sporting goods, the bombing she participated in, the death of myrna opsel which she was morally responsible for. >> after so many years, it was always patricia hearst that got the limelight and this semi celebrity. i think everyone dropped hopes of ...

I was not trying to hide out. i hadn't changed my name. it was a [ bleep ] nightmare that we had to revisit. >> so, when the sacramento d.a. did finally file charges against all five of the s.l.a. 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 wasn't she indicted with the rest of them? >> there were four people in the bank. there were two get away drivers. bill harris and patricia hearst. ...

I believed in her and in her defense. >> she was on the hook for a very grizzly first-degree murder, and we got her out of that. had that been understood at the time, the hearst case would have been labelled as a major victory. and randy and catherine hearst understood and they were very grateful for it. if patty ever said thank you, i don't recall it. >> patricia hearst is asking for a new trial, charging her trial attorney f.-l olee bailey with ineffective defense. ♪