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Patricia Hearst Trial Essay

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Patricia Hearst did receive a fair verdict in her trial. On February 4, 1974, nineteen year old Patricia Hearst was in her apartment in Berkeley, California with her fiance’ Steven Weed. When suddenly there was a knock on the door and barged in a group of men and women holding assault rifles. Patty Hearst was dragged out of her apartment and thrown into the trunk of a car while her fiance’ Steven Weed was severely beaten. It was soon discovered that Patty Hearst was taken by a group of radicals who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army or SLA. Hearst was taken to what would become her prison. Patty Hearst was imprisoned by her abductors, blindfolded and kept in a closet for fifty seven days. Hearst was constantly put through torture, whether it was mental cruelty or rape. Since Hearst came from a wealthy family the SLA tried to use her for negotiations. Soon after her disappearance audiotapes were released demanding millions of dollars in food donations in exchange for Hearst’s release. Instead of releasing Hearst, the SLA continued on with her torture trying to turn her into a poster child for their upcoming revolution. …show more content…

A few days later Hearst was spotted on a bank’s surveillance camera holding an assault rifle during an SLA bank robbery, yelling orders to hostages and providing cover to her fellow SLA radicals. This caused the FBI to launch one of the most massive, agent intensive searches in history to find Hearst and stop the SLA. Finally after having no leads and Hearst and a few years traveling all over the country to avoid capture. After a year of searching the FBI caught Hearst in San Francisco on September 18,

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