The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army – along with her subsequent alliance with her captors in bank robberies, car bombings, and shootouts – forms an indelible memory of life in California in the 1970s. The public was captivated by this heiress-turned-terrorist cliffhanger. Hearst's nineteen months on the run with the SLA featured ground-breaking live TV coverage of a SWAT team urban assault and nationwide police and FBI searches.
The saga culminated in an extraordinary trial held in the ceremonial courtroom of the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The principal lawyers – F. Lee Bailey for the defense and Jim Browning for the United States – confronted one another, psychiatrists, and dozens of eye witnesses … as well as the defendant herself.
Judge Orrick, whose father sentenced Hearst in 1976, will moderate a panel in that very courtroom. The lawyers and judicial clerks who worked on the case will share their recollections and discuss the issues of culpability, coercion, and duress that resonate to this day.
This is a joint program with the Northern District Practice Program (an approved provider of the State Bar of California), and attendance earns 1.5 hours of general MCLE.
For more information, please contact the Historical Society Administrator at (415) 522-4246 or [email protected]
Moderator
Hon. William H. Orrick III
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California
Contributors
(and their 1976 connections)
Hon. D. Lowell Jensen
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California (Ret.)
(former Alameda County District Attorney)
Robert A. James, Esq.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco
(partner of Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward P. Davis)
David P. Bancroft, Esq.
Sideman & Bancroft LLP, San Francisco
(former Assistant U.S. Attorney)
Ralph J. Swanson, Esq.
Berliner Cohen LLP, San Jose
(law clerk to Judge Carter)
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The saga culminated in an extraordinary trial held in the ceremonial courtroom of the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The principal lawyers – F. Lee Bailey for the defense and Jim Browning for the United States – confronted one another, psychiatrists, and dozens of eye witnesses … as well as the defendant herself.
Judge Orrick, whose father sentenced Hearst in 1976, will moderate a panel in that very courtroom. The lawyers and judicial clerks who worked on the case will share their recollections and discuss the issues of culpability, coercion, and duress that resonate to this day.
This is a joint program with the Northern District Practice Program (an approved provider of the State Bar of California), and attendance earns 1.5 hours of general MCLE.
For more information, please contact the Historical Society Administrator at (415) 522-4246 or [email protected]
Moderator
Hon. William H. Orrick III
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California
Contributors
(and their 1976 connections)
Hon. D. Lowell Jensen
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California (Ret.)
(former Alameda County District Attorney)
Robert A. James, Esq.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco
(partner of Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward P. Davis)
David P. Bancroft, Esq.
Sideman & Bancroft LLP, San Francisco
(former Assistant U.S. Attorney)
Ralph J. Swanson, Esq.
Berliner Cohen LLP, San Jose
(law clerk to Judge Carter)
The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army – along with her subsequent alliance with her captors in bank robberies, car bombings, and shootouts – forms an indelible memory of life in California in the 1970s. The public was captivated by this heiress-turned-terrorist cliffhanger. Hearst's nineteen months on the run with the SLA featured ground-breaking live TV coverage of a SWAT team urban assault and nationwide police and FBI searches.
The saga culminated in an extraordinary trial held in the ceremonial courtroom of the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The principal lawyers – F. Lee Bailey for the defense and Jim Browning for the United States – confronted one another, psychiatrists, and dozens of eye witnesses … as well as the defendant herself.
Judge Orrick, whose father sentenced Hearst in 1976, will moderate a panel in that very courtroom. The lawyers and judicial clerks who worked on the case will share their recollections and discuss the issues of culpability, coercion, and duress that resonate to this day.
This is a joint program with the Northern District Practice Program (an approved provider of the State Bar of California), and attendance earns 1.5 hours of general MCLE.
For more information, please contact the Historical Society Administrator at (415) 522-4246 or [email protected]
Moderator
Hon. William H. Orrick III
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California
Contributors
(and their 1976 connections)
Hon. D. Lowell Jensen
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California (Ret.)
(former Alameda County District Attorney)
Robert A. James, Esq.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco
(partner of Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward P. Davis)
David P. Bancroft, Esq.
Sideman & Bancroft LLP, San Francisco
(former Assistant U.S. Attorney)
Ralph J. Swanson, Esq.
Berliner Cohen LLP, San Jose
(law clerk to Judge Carter)
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The saga culminated in an extraordinary trial held in the ceremonial courtroom of the federal courthouse in San Francisco. The principal lawyers – F. Lee Bailey for the defense and Jim Browning for the United States – confronted one another, psychiatrists, and dozens of eye witnesses … as well as the defendant herself.
Judge Orrick, whose father sentenced Hearst in 1976, will moderate a panel in that very courtroom. The lawyers and judicial clerks who worked on the case will share their recollections and discuss the issues of culpability, coercion, and duress that resonate to this day.
This is a joint program with the Northern District Practice Program (an approved provider of the State Bar of California), and attendance earns 1.5 hours of general MCLE.
For more information, please contact the Historical Society Administrator at (415) 522-4246 or [email protected]
Moderator
Hon. William H. Orrick III
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California
Contributors
(and their 1976 connections)
Hon. D. Lowell Jensen
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California (Ret.)
(former Alameda County District Attorney)
Robert A. James, Esq.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Francisco
(partner of Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward P. Davis)
David P. Bancroft, Esq.
Sideman & Bancroft LLP, San Francisco
(former Assistant U.S. Attorney)
Ralph J. Swanson, Esq.
Berliner Cohen LLP, San Jose
(law clerk to Judge Carter)
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