Language: English
hearst alone was arraigned for the hibernia bank robbery the trial commenced on january   judge oliver jesse carter who was a professional acquaintance of a junior member of the prosecution team ruled hearsts taped and written statements after the bank robbery while she was a fugitive with the sla members were voluntary he did not allow expert testimony that stylistic analysis indicated the tania statements and writing were not wholly composed by hearst and permitted the prosecution to introduce statements and actions of hearst long after the hibernia robbery as evidence of her state of mind at the time of the robbery carter allowed into evidence a recording made by prison authorities of a friends prison visit with hearst in which she used profanities and spoke of her radical and feminist beliefs but did not allow tapes of the interviews of hearst by psychiatrist louis jolyon west to be heard by the jury judge carter appeared to be resting his eyes during testimony favorable to the defense by west and others