learst defense claims evidence illegal
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JAN FRANCISCO — Patricia
rst’s defense attorneys have
phed a vigorous assault against
! of the most stinging evidence
_|ist her, seeking to have it stric-
J as the product of an illegal
h.
S. District Court Judge Oliver
rter scheduled an evidentiary
ng outside the presence of the
oday at the request of defense
sel F. Lee Bailey.
The judge predicted the hearing
would take at least several hours, in
terrupting the prosecution’s rebuttal
testimony and virtually erasing any
chance of sending the bank robbery
case to the jury by the end of the
week.
Bailey wants Carter to throw out
the controversial “Tania Interview”
as well as other documents the gov
ernment contends prove Miss
Hearst willingly embraced the re
volutionary goals of the Symbionese
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(e a registration form at the
County Tax Assessor-
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is may also be mailed to the tax
te but must be postmarked by
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Stater certificates will be mailed
to the registrant’s local mailing
ress.
Indents may register at a booth,
rated by Texas A&M Student
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The municipal elections will be
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tion deadline for the May 3 county
and state elections.
Liberation Army.
The 29-page “Tania” manuscript
— so called for the revolutionary
name Miss Hearst said the SLA gave
her — contains some of the defen
dant’s handwriting and outlines her
rejection of her family and her con
version to the terrorist doctrines of
the SLA. Portions of the document
were read to the jury during the trial.
Bailey objected Tuesday when
U. S. Atty. James L. Browning Jr.
attempted to read an agreement be
tween the opposing counsels of a list
of documents and notebooks found
in the San Francisco apartment of
SLA members William and Emily
Harris, arrested within hours of Miss
Hearst last Sept. 18.
“It has come to my attention that
the search which we thought was
made legally at the time of arrest has
now been ruled illegal by a judge on
the state bench,” Bailey said.
Some of the material, which could
link Miss Hearst to planned bank
robberies during her 19 months in
the underground, prompted her to
invoke the 5th Amendment 42 times
last month.
Bailey told Carter that a Superior
Court judge in Los Angeles had de
clared the search of the Harrises’
hideout illegal and asked Carter to
do the same.
Carter said he was aware of Judge
Mark Brandler’s ruling. Brandler
said the FBI had the apartment
under surveillance for more than 30
hours and had ample time to get a
search warrant but failed to do so.
He refused to accept as evidence
in the Harris assault case in Los
Angeles any material found in their
apartment.
Browning objected to the hearing,
saying the defense should have filed
the motion to suppress the evidence
long ago. Bailey angrily informed the
prosecutor that he had been unaware
that the legality of the search was in
dispute.
Court was recessed 20 minutes
early Tuesday to prepare for the
hearing. Bailey dashed out to fill a
speaking engagement, but his as
sociate, Al Johnson, said, “If the
search and seizure were illegal, the
evidence derived in that search
would be stricken from the record of
this case. ”
The government’s chief attorney
has been foiled in his attempts to
question the defendant’s activities
from September 1974 until her ar
rest a year later. He claims she was
out “casing banks with the Harrises, ”
but Miss Hearst refuses to testify
about the year.
Bailey will not let the defendant
testify about the year she spent with
the Harrises in Sacramento and San
Francisco, arguing that it could lead
to further indictments and retalia
tion from radical elements.
Browning indicated that he had at
least four more rebuttal witnesses,
including the manager of a bank in
Marysville, Calif., of which a diag
ram was found in the Harrises’
apartment with Miss Hearst’s
fingerprints.
The Harris search was disputed
because they were arrested outside
on the sidewalk near their apart
ment.
The search of Miss Hearst’s
apartment is not in conflict, Bailey
said, because the 22-year-old news
paper heiress was captured inside
and California law allows for a war
rantless search in the immediate vic
inity of an arrest.
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A pioneer in environmental de-
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