bousire pig. it depidn t matter. it didn t matter what they did to anybody. they were always right, always. publishing that book was one of the dumbest things i have ever seen in my life because immunity doesn t cover writing books to make money about how you committed a capital crime and being the get away driver in a bank where murder occurs makes the driver liable for murder in the first degree. patty, you have 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 still has this murder case hanging over her head. patricia hearst had written her book, so most of the details are 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 the victim. you know, i have a life now and
i was not trying to hide out. i hadn t changed my name. it was a [ bleep ] night marry that we had to revisit. so when they did finally file charges against all five of the sla 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. patty did not go into the crocker bank, the way she went into the hybernia bank.
and william harris. we had been accused in the newspaper of the carmichael bank robbery as early as september 21st, 1975. subsequently very soon, they charged steve solia with the bank robbery in federal district court in sacramento. there were witnesses to the robbery who claimed that they saw him in the bank and put him among the robbers. when she ends up debriefing, she tells the fbi the real story of what happened and reveals to them that steven was not in the bank. the prosecutors, they wanted to stick with their eyewitness identification principally because they knew she was a horrible [ bleep ] witness even if she was telling the truth. steven was acquitted. federal government used that essentially as a test run as to whether or not they could prove the murder. that trial was a debacle. it went horribly, and that gave
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 the victim. you know, i have a life now and children and i just want to move ahead. she seems to have gotten almost a celebrity status over this terrible thing. 14 years ago, patty hearst
d.a. didn t trust her as a witness. charge in the murder case was 7 to life, and we were allowed to work out a plea. i m sure that had a lot to do with patty hearst not wanting to testify and having the power to go with that. we were told the sla members were going to plead guilty. we at least knew there was some level of justice being done and that we would get to kind of face the people that brought us so much sorrow and grief. whether her murder was a careless accident or planned assassination, the end result was the same. she was dead and our family was devastated. not only did the defendants have that moment in the bank to change course and possibly prevent her death, they had plenty of opportunities after that to learn from their mistakes and to refrain from further violence without necessarily giving up their imaginary cause. i do believe emily harris admitted that she was the one