![]() ![]() “The only thing Miss Hearst’s wealth got her was kidnapped,” Mayerson later told The Times. ![]() Mayerson exercised empathy in reviewing the case, and - knowing she already faced years in prison - recommended the court give her probation. Others saw Hearst as a privileged college student who found adventure or perhaps purpose in the SLA mayhem and then turned to her wealthy parents when she was in deep trouble. Though charged with a healthy cross-section of crimes, she claimed she had been raped and abused by her captors and joined them on their crime rampage only out of fear of the reprisals they would take out on her or her family. County deputy district attorney who had seen his share of criminals in the courtroom. Hearst was a complex adversary for Mayerson, a veteran L.A. The Los Angeles half of the Hearst case landed on Mayerson’s desk.Īlready convicted of the San Francisco bank robbery and sentenced to seven years in prison, Hearst faced 11 felonies in Los Angeles, including shooting up the streets of Inglewood following a bungled shoplifting attempt at what then was Mel’s Sporting Goods. ![]()
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