United States v. Patricia Campbell Hearst

CHOY, Circuit Judge:

Hearst appeals the district court’s denial, without discovery or a hearing, of her motion for “habeas corpus,” 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We affirm in part and vacate in part, and remand for further proceedings.

I. Introduction

Hearst was arrested in September 1975 for bank robbery. Soon after, she made incriminating statements, which were captured by jail officials on the “Tobin tape,” in a jailhouse interview with her friend Tobin. F. Lee Bailey and his associate J. Albert Johnson entered the case on October 2 as Hearst’s counsel and prepared a defense based on a coercion theory.…